Women in Mythology

Her skin is the color of a midnight storm, a garland of skulls hangs around her neck, and her feet dance a rhythm that can shatter the universe. In this episode, we meet Kali, the supreme Hindu goddess of time, change, and destruction. While Western colonial history misunderstood her as a terrifying demon, she is actually the ultimate protector and a symbol of fierce maternal love. Discover the co...

On the blood-soaked battlefields of ancient Ireland, a single raven flies down to claim the soul of a fallen warrior. In our third launch episode, we meet The Morrigan , the terrifying Celtic goddess of war, witchcraft, and death. While older history rewrote her as an evil witch or a weeping banshee of doom, she was actually the ultimate protector of the land and the guardian of absolute truth. Di...

For thousands of years, history called her a snake-haired demon. A hideous beast waiting for a male hero to slice off her head. In this episode, we cross the ocean to ancient Greece to look past the stone-cold myth. Before the snakes, Medusa was a beautiful woman trying to survive the whims of selfish gods. Discover why her transformation wasn't actually a punishment from the goddess Athena—it was...

She did not crawl out of a womb or cry like a fragile baby. She stepped directly out of a roaring bonfire—fully grown and ready to fight. In our premiere episode, we meet Draupadi, the fierce queen from the ancient Indian epic, the Mahabharata. History often blames her for a catastrophic world war. But did she start the war, or was she just demanding justice from a corrupt kingdom? Discover the tr...