
RE-AIR: Medusa, Colonialism, Re-Imagining Goddesses and Monsters with Nikita Gill
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
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Isn't It Funny When You're Reading a Book Like the Homeric Hymns
I just want to go back and talk to these people so bad. I always picture them like really seriously telling these stories and getting really pissed off if anyone laughs because in my head that's how I see it especially when you're talking about the Homeric hymns which is where both of those stories originally come from. Any religion with a pantheon there will be humor and war with that pantheon somewhere or the other. My mum tells the most hilarious version of the Muhammad ever and the way that she tells it is so funny, he says. "It's extremely irreverent but it's so funny"
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