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Tales of Myths and Legends explores mythology, folklore, legendary heroes, cursed artifacts, lost gods, and mysterious creatures from across cultures.
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Osiris: The Murdered God Who Became Lord of the Dead (opens the original)
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Osiris, the Egyptian god of the dead, sits enthroned at the end of Hunefer’s judgment in a New Kingdom Book of the Dead. Before him, a human heart is weighed. Anubis attends the balance, Thoth records the result, Horus leads the justified dead onward, and Isis and Nephthys stand beside the god who offers a transformed existence after death. Yet Egyptian tradition said that Osiris himself had first been destroyed by his brother Seth. Isis, Osiris’s wife, and Nephthys mourned and protected him. Ho
Orpheus and Eurydice: The Man Who Entered the Underworld for Love (opens the original)
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Orpheus, the legendary musician associated with Thrace, enters the field of the dead after the loss of his wife. In the best-known ancient version, his music persuades the rulers below to permit Eurydice’s return—but only if he leads her upward without looking behind him. Near the boundary of the living world, Orpheus turns. Eurydice disappears a second time. But the famous backward glance is not found in the earliest surviving reference to Orpheus’s descent. Euripides, Plato, Diodorus Siculus,
Lucifer: The Angel Who Fell From Heaven (opens the original)
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Lucifer is one of the most famous names in Western religious legend, yet the Bible contains no single chapter called “The Fall of Lucifer.” The familiar story of a radiant angel who becomes proud, rebels against God, leads angels into war, and is cast down by Michael developed over centuries from several different passages. This episode begins with the traditional image of heaven’s great rebellion, then follows the fragments from which that image was built. Isaiah mocks the king of Babylon throu
Achilles: The Warrior With One Fatal Weakness — Famous Greek Hero, War, Destiny, Tragedy (opens the original)
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Achilles, son of the sea-goddess Thetis and the mortal king Peleus, is remembered as the greatest warrior of the Trojan War. Yet his story is not simply about an unbeatable fighter with one weak heel. In Homer’s Iliad, Achilles is mortal, vulnerable, and deeply aware that he must choose between a long forgotten life and a short life of undying fame. This episode follows Achilles from the prophecies surrounding his birth to the crisis that defines the Iliad: Agamemnon takes Briseis, the captive w
Pegasus: The Winged Horse Born From a Monster’s Blood (opens the original)
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Pegasus enters Greek mythology at one of its most violent moments. When Perseus kills the mortal Gorgon Medusa, the winged horse and his brother Chrysaor emerge. Hesiod identifies them as the children of Poseidon and Medusa, making Pegasus neither a simple creature of blood nor a generic fantasy horse, but a singular immortal being with an extraordinary genealogy. From that beginning, Pegasus becomes inseparable from Bellerophon. With a golden bridle given by Athena in Pindar’s account, the hero
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