Myth Matters
Welcome to Myth Matters, a thought-provoking exploration of myth in contemporary life and the intersection of myth, creativity, and consciousness. Host Catherine Svehla PhD. shares her knowledge of mythology and depth psychology to find insight and explore possibilities. Member of the Joseph Campbell Foundation MythMaker℠ Podcast Network.
Learn more at www.mythicmojo.com and keep the mystery in your life alive.
Myth Matters
Latest Episodes
9MM Memory and the Muses
"It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, that then when we no longer know which way to go, we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the on...
Ancient ideas about Love: Eros, Ovid, and Sappho
“Energy, creation, movement and harmony, development, all happen under the aegis of love, in the domain of eros. Desire is the cause of all movement, and movement is the character of all being. The universe is a process, and its method is c...
Forms in Flux: Transformation in Ovid's Metamorphoses
"Some sisters said such things could never be, while others were convinced that anything was in the power of true deities---"-The Metamorphoses, Book 4, by Ovid translated by Allen MandelbaumOvid wove Greek myths of trans...
Ovid's Metamorphoses: Love and Transformation
“All things change; nothing perishes.”-- OvidOvid was a Roman poet who wrote his master work, The Metamorphoses or "Transformations," in 8 C.E.. He weaves more than 250 Greek myths together in one long poem to tell a story of tr...
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