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Oct 15, 2025 9 min

What is Myth? (preview)

from This Podcast is a Ritual Hosted by Devin Person

Beyond magic lies myth, a series of stories and symbols a culture uses to understand itself and orient to a wider metaphysical reality. While early anthropologists tended to discard other cultures' myths as mere superstition and nonsense, thanks to pioneering comparative mythologists like Joseph Campbell, Mircea Eliade, and Georges Dumézil (among others), we can now explore a far more magical answer to the question... what is myth?Listen to the full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/141320341Got a question for the the Wizard? Call the Wizard Hotline at 860-415-6009‬ and have it answered in a future episode!Join the ritual: www.patreon.com/thispodcastisaritual

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