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Finding the Oldest Religion

A journey back through time, through religions and cultures, to find out why we started to believe in something, and what it was.

Human Sacrifice: Recreating Ritual

Eating dinner with friends has throw backs to the rituals around human sacrifice, and in this episode we will explore how we know this.

Human Sacrifice: Reconstruction the Ritual

A couple of thousand years ago you could have had dinner with friends, or friends for dinner. Here I examine and recreate sacrificial ritual, and how it applied to human sacrifice.

Sacrifice in Indo-European Culture

Sacrifice was reasonably common amongst our ancestors. In this episode of the Crecganford podcast I talk about some of the best known examples of sacrifice.

Journey to the Underworld

In this episode we look at the myths that talk about Journeying to the Underworld, from Egypt to Scandinavia, and see if they are linked, or if they have differences, then we will examine those.

War of the Gods

There is much talk of conflict between gods, cultures, and even brothers, within mythology of the Indo-Europeans and the Near East. This episode takes a look into this conflict to see if it all originated from a clash between the Proto Indo-European speaking peoples and the Early European Farmers.

Near Eastern Myth within Indo-European Mythology

Whilst the amount of DNA influence on the original Indo-Europeans from the Near East was minimal, their myths certainly influenced there stories. This is a talk through some of them.

The Origins of the Biblical Genesis

A look at the mythology behind Genesis, and so not a theological or biblical scholarly look.  And this allows us to see which stories the bible "borrowed" from other cultures and why.

The Comparative Mythology of the Near Eastern Myth of Creation

In this episode I tell many versions of the Near Eastern Creation myths which I trace into Indo-European cultures, and show how it evolved and changed.

Animating the Inanimate - Paintings that come alive!

There was a myth told amongst the North African's of a painting that would come alive, or a painting that would be replaced by a living person. This myth is seen elsewhere, and so does it have a common origin, is it modern, or can we trace it back thousands of years to a belief of our paleolithic ancestors and so perhaps a form of belief from cave paintings? If that sounds interesting then grab yourself a cup fo tea, and welcome to Crecganford.