Marisa Goudy

KnotWork Myth & Storytelling

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On KnotWork, we explore the mythology and folklore of Ireland, and beyond. Episodes begin with a story, followed by a deep dive conversation about how this age-old tale still resonates today. Our guests include oral storytellers, writers, artists, musicians, and spiritual leaders. Occasionally, in our Myth Workers and Culture Makers series, our guest offers a song, a meditation, or another bit of creative magic. We talk about what it means to live a myth-inspired life. These conversations explore our relationship to land and to identity, particularly related to what it means to be Irish and a...

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Marisa Goudy

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Tell Me My Story with Dimple Dhabalia | S4 Ep10 06.12.2023 40:12

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons  on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Dimple Dhabalia reads to us from a later section of her forthcoming book, Tell Me My Story—Challenging the Narrative of Service Before Self. She sha...

Divine Embodiment with Eleanora Amendolara | S4 Ep9 29.11.2023 34:20

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons  on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Eleanora Amendolara shares an excerpt from her book Divine Embodiment: The Art & Practice of Chumpi Illumination. We discuss Eleanora’s many tri...

The Last Sovereignty Goddess | S4 Ep 8 08.11.2023 1:06:36

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons  on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story In Ireland’s Forgotten Goddess Queen-Queen-Witch (S4 Ep7), you met Mongfind. She’s best known from her role in the story of Niall of the Nine Hostag...

Ireland’s Forgotten Goddess-Queen-Witch (Re-Release) | S4 Ep7 01.11.2023 35:26

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons  on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Meet Mongfind, the Sovereignty Goddess who appears in the Book of Lecan, a medieval Irish manuscript compiled at the turn of the fourteenth century....

Fite Fuaite: Interwoven, A Story by Jen Murphy | S4 Ep6 25.10.2023 47:58

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Fite Fuaite, the Irish for “interwoven.” Jen Murphy weaves a vast cloak of wisdom and culture. Less a story perhaps and more of an incantation and an...

A Sacred Detour to Iona, A Story by Royce Fitts | S4 Ep5 18.10.2023 50:54

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and hear the supporter-only podcast between episodes on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Iona. This island in the Scottish Hebrides is only three miles long, but it's home to millennia of spiritual, cultural, and natural magic. This story is an excerpt from the new spir...

Birth, Death, and Rebirth: A Story of the Goddess Lilith | S4 Ep4 11.10.2023 49:30

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Lilith was a goddess or a demon, depending on whose holy books or sacred folk tradition you follow. Pearl Gregor channels Lilith’s divine voice, decrying...

Miriam's Sensual Universe with Sophie Strand | S4 Ep3 04.10.2023 47:22

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Sophie’s new novel, The Madonna Secret, offers a lush, ecological exploration of the gospel stories of Jesus and Mary Magdalene we may think we know so we...

Danu: Rise of the Mother, a story by Laura Murphy | S4 Ep2 27.09.2023 1:09:58

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Laura Murphy returns to KnotWork for the third time with a tale of the Irish goddess Danu that is part creation story and part initiation rite.  Our...

For the Guides, Gods, and Ancestors | S4 Ep1 20.09.2023 20:48

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and stay connected between seasons on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Join us in the Autumn Writers’ Knot! Let the Guides, Gods, and Ancestors Lead Your Creative Journey - Register for the online writing program that begins on September 24! This series of four retreats is storyt...

The Cauldron of Inspiration: A Story of Ceridwen & Taliesin | S3 Ep15 10.05.2023 30:53

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and stay connected between seasons  on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Ceridwen of Wales was a powerful sorceress with a hand for potions and a ferocious amount of mother love. Her magical cauldron was blessed with “awen,” supernatural inspiration and knowled...

Niall of the Nine Hostages, A Story by Mari Kennedy | S3 Ep14 03.05.2023 58:24

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and get even more stories  on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. OUR STORY: Niall of the Nine Hostages was an Irish king and the first sovereign of the powerful Uí Néill dynasty. Mari Kennedy’s telling of the story begins with the birth of Niall, son of a king and an ensl...

The Women of the Grail, told by Tara Wild | S3 Ep13 26.04.2023 55:50

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and get even more stories  on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story The twelfth century poet Chrétien de Troyes gives us the story of Perceval, a holy fool from the wild woods who visits the court of the Fisher King and eventually becomes the epitome of the chivalr...

The Curator's Mythology with Owen King | S3 Ep12 19.04.2023 43:58

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and get even more stories  on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story According to the New York Times,  Owen King’s new novel The Curator is “a horror-tinged historical fantasy set in a city upended by revolution." Owen joins us to read an excerpt that highlight...

Two Worlds, Two Women: A New Perspective on the Mad Sweeney Story | S3 Ep11 12.04.2023 48:29

Our Story In Season 2 of KnotWork Storytelling, Marisa Goudy took Seamus Heaney’s translation of the Irish medieval epic poem, Sweeney Astray and crafted Lost in the Wild, At Home Within: A Story of Mad Sweeney . In that retelling of a pagan warrior king driven into exile by a saint’s curse, there wasn’t time to explore the women’s stories. This time, Marisa presents a conversation between Eoran,...

Bride and the Cailleach: A Scottish Story told by Katy Swift | S3 Ep 10 05.04.2023 55:12

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and get even more stories  on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Katy Swift shares a story of Scotland’s creation and the cycle of the seasons, featuring the Cailleach, the goddess of winter, and Bride, the goddess of spring.  The  story is inspired by...

When Tides Rise, Build Your Own Boat: Cessair’s Arrival in Ireland | S3 Ep9 29.03.2023 49:54

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and get even more stories  on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Ireland doesn’t have a creation story, but it does have Lebor Gabála Érenn, the Book of Invasions. The first invasion was led by Cessair, a granddaughter of Noah who took her own boat to Ireland to...

The Look of the Scots Gaelic Language: Stories About Race & Kinship | S3 Ep8 22.03.2023 53:48

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and get even more stories  on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Three stories from Turtle Island - from Antigonish in Nova Scotia, Alaska, and the Cape Fear River in North Carolina  - speak to expectations of race, ethnicity, and skin color, particularly w...

Driftwood Man, A Story by Dee Mulrooney | S3 Ep7 15.03.2023 57:32

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and get even more stories  on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story “Driftwood Man” is a timeless tale of longing and belonging, existential homesickness and ultimately coming home that is both deeply Irish and unmistakably global. This original story emerged as ar...

In the Company of the Banshee with Caoimhe Nic Giollarnáth | S3 Ep6 08.03.2023 45:26

Please Support Our Show on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling?  Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and get even more stories on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story As the film, the Banshees of Inisherin receives awards across the world, we explore stories of the bean sí, the Irish fairy woman who was considered a harbinger of death. Our guest, Caoimhe  Nic Giollarnáit...

The Power of Pillow Talk: The Story of Queen Medb | S3 Ep 5 01.03.2023 54:05

Support the Show on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling?  Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and get even more stories on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story The “Pillow Talk” scene opens the Táin Bó Cúailnge , the Irish mythological epic. Queen Medb and King Ailill compare the wealth they brought to the marriage. This private conversation becomes a war that involves all of...

The Buried Moon, Told by Mitlé Southey | S3 Ep4 22.02.2023 46:28

Please Support Our Show on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling?  Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and get even more stories on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our story Mitlé Southey retells a classic story from her childhood home, the Fens of East Anglia, collected by Mrs. M.C. Balfour from the 1890s. The moon becomes trapped in a marsh pool. Without her light, the bogles and...

Choosing the Mystery: The Rosary’s Radical Feminine Heart with Perdita Finn | S3 Ep3 15.02.2023 52:27

Our Story In recent years, the rosary has been used to shame and restrain women and sexuality, but what if it is actually the umbilical cord that connects us to The Mother? Support the Show on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and get even more stories  on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story In recent years, the rosary has been use...

Art, Love, God: The Tragedy of Líadan and Cuirithir | S3 Ep2 08.02.2023 57:12

Support the Show on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and get even more stories  on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Líadain and Cuirithir’s romance is the stuff of medieval tragedy. Two bards fall in love, but Líadain makes a choice that alters their shared fate. They end up at a monastic order, forever bound in chaste conversa...

Brigid: Rebirth of the Mother, a Story by Laura Murphy | S3 Ep1 01.02.2023 57:51

Support the Show on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling?  Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and get even more stories on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story The goddess Brigid is known to be a daughter of Dagda, “the Good God.” But who was her mother? Inspired by the mythology and her own intuitive imagination and imbas forosnai , Laura shares own story of Brigid’s birth a...