Jo Blake: What Does Myth Do Anyway? #3

”Flowers become flesh becomes bird…” The first guest on our show is Jo Blake, a performer working across the disciplines of storytelling, theatre and dance. She has written a PhD about her project of unearthing the mythological character Blodeuwedd (flower-face/owl) from the depths of the Mabinogion - a medieval Welsh text regarded as one of the oldest and most complete repositories of British Celtic Myth. We talk about mythic ambiguity, female trickster figures and the importance of making the wrong choice...among many other  things! Jo Blakehttps://www.jo-blake.co.ukBlodeuwedd Untold video trailerhttps://vimeo.com/303024064Pdf about Jo’s storytelling course Body, Breath & Storyhttps://ce0d3962-23fd-4385-84a5-f1c07de41738.filesusr.com/ugd/271cc3_bb1025dfbe46464c80210844a66a569... PODCAST LINKS https://www.intheborderlands.com/ https://www.patreon.com/IntheBorderlands https://www.facebook.com/intheborderlands https://www.instagram.com/intheborderlands_podcast/ EMAIL [email protected] TORGRIM'S LINKS https://www.brittle.one/ https://www.facebook.com/kloverknekten https://www.instagram.com/kloverknekten/ MIKAEL'S LINKS https://smarturl.it/inanna https://www.facebook.com/mikael.oberg.performance.storyteller https://www.instagram.com/mikaelobergstoryteller/ REFERENCESFour Branches of the Mabinogi (Blodeuwedd is in the Fourth Branch)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Branches_of_the_MabinogiRobert Blyhttps://robertbly.comMalleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malleus_MaleficarumLwa (Vodou)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LwaThe sword from the lakehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_of_the_LakeSnorri’s Eddahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prose_EddaVoluspahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VöluspáIn the Beginning was the Scream by Henning Kurehttps://www.academia.edu/8766740/In_the_beginning_was_the_Scream_Conceptual_thought_in_the_Old_Norse...Ben Haggarty on commentary - Extract 3: The Storyteller’s Grammarhttps://crickcrackclub.com/the-secret-art-of-the-storyteller/Book: Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaportahttps://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/sand-talkOdin on the world treehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YggdrasilBook: Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hydehttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56450.Trickster_Makes_This_WorldCarl Junghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_JungNuminoushttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NuminousBook: The Soul’s Code by James Hillman https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/970831.The_Soul_s_CodeTorgrim Mellum Stene's poem The Fallhttp://www.mythopoesis.net/2021/02/14/the-fall/?fbclid=IwAR2WQav06n8Zqy5GlVdWKf5tZo2gqhvwVg_sxeVLJBd...Marie-Louise von Franzhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Louise_von_Franz