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 Blake https://www.jo-blake.co.uk Blodeuwedd Untold video trailer https://vimeo.com/303024064 Pdf about Jo’s storytelling course Body, Breath & Story https://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/ REFERENCES Four Branches of the Mabinogi (Blodeuwedd is in the Fourth Branch) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Branches_of_the_Mabinogi Robert Bly https://robertbly.com Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malleus_Maleficarum Lwa (Vodou) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lwa The sword from the lake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_of_the_Lake Snorri’s Edda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prose_Edda Voluspa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Völuspá In the Beginning was the Scream by Henning Kure https://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 Grammar https://crickcrackclub.com/the-secret-art-of-the-storyteller/ Book: Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/sand-talk Odin on the world tree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil Book: Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56450.Trickster_Makes_This_World Carl Jung https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung Numinous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numinous Book: The Soul’s Code by James Hillman https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/970831.The_Soul_s_Code Torgrim Mellum Stene's poem The Fall http://www.mythopoesis.net/2021/02/14/the-fall/?fbclid=IwAR2WQav06n8Zqy5GlVdWKf5tZo2gqhvwVg_sxeVLJBd... Marie-Louise von Franz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Louise_von_Franz