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Juno & Hecate: Keepers of Sovereignty

What does real power look like when it doesn’t need to dominate? In this mythology deep dive, Raven Lorekeeper steps into the quiet authority of the great keepers — Juno and Hecate — and follows their lineage through Isis, Ishtar, and Mami Wata, tracing an ancient pattern of sovereignty rooted not …

Mermaids

Forget Ariel. Forget Splash. Forget the Starbucks logo. This week, Chris and Ed dive into the terrifying pre-Disney history of mermaids, from Greek sirens and Japanese ningyo to Mami Wata, Sedna, Christopher Columbus’s “sightings,” P.T. Barnum’s infamous Feejee Mermaid, and the fake Animal Planet d…

The Buccaneers | Principals & Principalities Podcast

In 1972, at the University of Ibadan, a man named Bolaji Carew was expelled from The Pyrates Confraternity — the fraternity founded by Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka. His former brothers didn't just expel him. They declared him dead. They renamed him "Late Ahoy Rica Ricardo." In Pyrate culture, Bolaji…

The Mermaid Mystery: Did People Really See Mermaids? A True History Adventure for Kids

Grab your imaginary passports, Culture Kids! In this episode, Kristen, Asher, and Arden hop aboard the Culture Train time machine to investigate one of history's most enduring legends: mermaids. Are they pure myth, or did real people really believe they saw one? The adventure begins over 2,300 year…

The Mermaid Legends: Voices Beneath the Moonlit Sea

On a quiet sea beneath the moon, a sailor hears a song drifting over black water. It may be wind, a bird, another vessel beyond sight, or something remembered from an old tale. This gentle journey follows the changing legends of mermaids and water-bound beings through ancient Greek Sirens, medieval…

What Access Looks Like (Dead Yard: Deep Trouble)

When Pardina Samson-Fessale was a child in Saint Lucia, her mum, the only South African on the island at the time, marched into Nelson Mandela's hotel and refused to leave until they had met him. He gave Pardina a glass of orange juice and told her to be a good girl and listen to her mother.This we…

Mysteries Naija Special: She Grants Favors, But You Belong To Her — The Mystery of Mami Wata

Mami Wata is one of the most famous and feared water spirits in Africa. Beautiful woman. Long hair. Snakes around her body. Wealth, healing and good fortune on one side, sickness, misfortune and death on the other. Across Nigeria, especially in the southeast, stories of mysterious encounters with…

Mami Wata — The Water Spirit Worshipped and Feared Across Africa

She's been called a goddess. A demon. A healer. A thief of husbands, minds, and sometimes lives. Across an entire continent — and every shore the diaspora ever touched — Mami Wata has been worshipped in shrines and feared on riverbanks for centuries, and she is not finished collecting. This week o…

Episode 23: For the Love of Nature

Girl, buckle up. We're going into the Congo Basin, and absolutely nothing about this journey is staying on track. This episode takes us through bizarre geological formations known as ash dykes, prehistoric nightmare fuel in the form of Titanoboa and Vasuki indicus, and the mysterious world of Mami …