March 15th, 2019
Episode 54 – Does my Beard Look Big in This?
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
“When 900 years old you reach, look as good, you will not.” Yoda, Return of the Jedi (1983) https://www.deseretnews.com/top/1478/13/0When-900-years-old-you-reach0-Look-as-good-you-will-not1-Star-Wars-quotes-to-help-you.html
Dr Who – older than they look… https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/The_Doctor%27s_age
Odo and Quark in DS9 ‘Visionary’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX-g3jIHo8U
‘borrowing’ - Granny Wetherwax from Discworld: https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Borrowing
“How are your two heated towel rails? They are good.” Lenny Henry Live and Unleashed https://youtu.be/Vd6CqB144JA?t=1371
“The journey between here and the shops, well that’s just peanuts...” Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy http://quotegeek.com/literature/douglas-adams/the-hitchhikers-guide-to/7229/
“What are we gonna do? I don’t know, whaddy wanna do?” the vultures from the Jungle Book (1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGTWmrnPdgk
Brillo pads https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brillo_Pad
“You just graduated from my pilot to my valet.” Kingsman (2014)
“I’ve never seen a man eat so many chicken wings...” 'What Would Brian Boitano Do' from the South Park movie https://youtu.be/6-Fbtd8-cSs
“Oh grandma, what big teeth you have….” Little Red Riding Hood https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/little-red-riding-hood
What’s That Noshing on my Leg? A title suggestion for Peter Benchley’s classic Jaws https://twitter.com/qikipedia/status/183617631683751937?lang=en
“His eyes? Like gimlets” Terry Pratchett’s Reaper Man https://www.lspace.org/books/apf/reaper-man.html
“Thanks bridesmaid, like the beard, gives me something to hang on to!” Blackadder, ‘Bells’ season 2. http://britishcomedychannel.com/2015/12/21/lord-flashhearts-grand-entrance-blackadder-bbc/
Up All Night to get Loki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PldV6PEhn_Q And if you want Tom Hiddleston singing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XYIeJn6L58
The Church scene in Kingsman (2014) (NSFW, not suitable for all viewers) https://youtu.be/t1WWDBTda2Y
How to find us online
March 1st, 2019
Episode 53 – Theological Reflection – what if’s
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
The 9pm Watershed http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1738_respect/page9.shtml
Mary Whitehouse – TV Social Campaigner https://www.biographyonline.net/british/mary-whitehouse.html
The Mary Whitehouse Experience – TV Series 1990 –1992 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098858/
“Call it Christmas” by Mitch Benn - https://mitchbenn.bandcamp.com/track/call-it-christmas
The butterfly dreaming of being a man - https://philosophynow.org/issues/76/Zhuangzi_And_That_Bloody_Butterfly
‘Well, that escalated quickly.’ from Anchorman: the Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/that-escalated-quickly
‘For the Mug!’a reference to the Hutton Orbital Truckers Guild in Elite Dangerous
Subjunctive Theological Reflection the posh title for ‘What if?’ if you want to really get into it, head here: http://www.academia.edu/9182091/Theology_in_a_Subjunctive_Mood_Reflections_on_Charles_Taylors_A_Secular_Age
‘For the want of a nail, the kingdom was lost.’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Want_of_a_Nail
‘Wolves and Bells’ - Bad News: http://www.mclub.com.ua/s_txt.phtml?sn=1593951&sid=41598
Achilles and his heel - https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Heroes/Achilles/achilles.html
Obelix – from Asterix - https://www.asterix.com/en/portfolio/obelix/
Terminator – film series starting in 1984 and ending goodness knows where… https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/terminator-timeline-guide-extremely-confusing-story-far/
‘The beast with two backs’https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/58450.html
Snoopy and the happy dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4_VMcxoxrk
‘You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means...’ Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride (1988) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIP6EwqMEoE
‘All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again’ https://cityoftongues.com/non-fiction/all-of-this-has-happened-before/
How to find us online
February 15th, 2019
Episode 52 – Using Visualisations
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
“Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow” from Macbeth. Here’s Sir Patrick Stewart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZnaXDRwu84 and here’s Sir Ian McKellen ( in 1976 looking a little younger) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LDdyafsR7g
“Babble babble...” Marilyn Manson ‘This is the New Shit’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kQMDSw3Aqo
“Would you like us to lay on a turkey?” Julian and Sandy from Around the Horne. Two camp characters which openly used phrases in Polari in a radio sketch show. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/fabulosa/page6.htm
“How bona to varda your dolly old eeks.” Polari - ‘how good to see you all.’ (lit: ‘how good to see your faces’. Polari is a heavy dialect used primarily by gay men in the UK when being LGBT+ was illegal. It was a way to talk to each other without being understood by straight people – and thus avoiding being arrested and imprisoned. See here for a short film showing two men talking in Polari: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8yEH8TZUsk
Milkdrop on Winamp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MilkDrop
Fylgja in Northern spiritual practice – a personal guardian spirit which may take the shape of an animal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fylgja
Familiar – in Western witchcraft traditions, is an animal with which a witch or warlock shares energy or traits to help augment their own abilities. https://exemplore.com/wicca-witchcraft/Witches-Familiars
‘Step three: profit’ – Underpants Gnomes from South Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomes_(South_Park)
“Be mindful of the living force my young Padawan” Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. https://tzbarry.com/2016/12/15/phantom-menace/
“No sacrifice, no victory.” from the Transformers Soundtrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xrQ8wzGiQM
Two short visualisations that Suzanne has written – you are welcome to use these as they are, change them if you want to, create your own – have a play and see what works for you.
Meditations – Marcus Aurelius http://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.html
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February 1st, 2019
Episode 51 – Pagan and or Heathen
Big shout out to Rachel Frigot, who reminded us that we needed to come back and talk about this (after mentioning it in an early episode and then getting all excited about talking shop...)
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
The Mothman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothman
Dyatlov Pass Incident https://allthatsinteresting.com/dyatlov-pass-incident-photos
‘Ragged idiot / a man with a military bearing… / you’re horrible, arent’ you?/ written down on a piece of paper.’ it’s all The Goon Show. Here you go: http://www.thegoonshow.net/
“Not now, Kato!” A running gag from the Pink Panther Films – Peter Sellers at his finest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA8QrOAghZ0
“Ich bin ein Berliner...” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ich_bin_ein_Berliner
“It’s velour” Zapp Brannigan from Futureama https://youtu.be/PfCyctzyi_8
Preconscious brain – Freudian concept of information which you can recall easily with the correct mental prod, but that isn’t continuously conscious. For instance, your first telephone number, the colour of your current car, name of your first pet.
Schrodingers heathen… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat
“I would like, if I may…. heavy, black and pendulous” paraphrased from Rocky Horror Picture Show (stage 1973, film 1975) part of a traditional narrator/audience exchange in performances of the Rocky Horror Show: https://www.quotes.net/mquote/1058644
The Wicker Man: (indirect reference via the Botanic Gardens used as the setting): https://www.findingthewickerman.co.uk/logan-botanic-gardens
‘sleekit’ Scottish Dorric slang for slippery, evasive. "Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie" - Robert Burns, "To a Mouse"
Chaucer, naked in A Knights Tale: https://youtu.be/sCG8EaaaQeI
“Covered in Bees!” Eddie Izzard on Beekeepers: https://youtu.be/2aFJCfoi8FU
Well Dressings https://www.visitpeakdistrict.com/whats-on/well-dressings
“Tottenham Court Road is the Midlands” - Lola, Kinky Boots https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/KinkyBoots
Kemetic – faith in and the reconstruction of Egyptian classical religion http://www.kemet.org/
Filthy Basker, filthy trucker – both references to Elite Dangerous, being a supporter of the fictional Empire, and belonging to the Hutton Truckers guild.
Henotheism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism
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January 15th, 2019
Episode 50 – The Rune Poems
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Romulan Cloaking Device: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Cloaking_device
“Good Game, Good Game!” Catchphrase of Bruce Forsyth https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/good-game-good-game-bruce-forsyth-revolutionised-saturday-night/
Astonishing Legends Podcast https://www.astonishinglegends.com/
Marshmallows and S’mores https://whatscookingamerica.net/Cookie/Smores/Smores.htm Suzanne knows a variation on this which is a toasted marshmallow squashed between two rich tea biscuits.
Bovine Bank Accounts – Frithcast Episode 28
Maeshowe http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/maeshowe/maeshrunes.htm
Thames Scramsax: https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=86215&partId=1 you can see a modern replica here: https://www.medieval-arms.co.uk/detail/id/1698/name/beagnoth-sax-sword-thames-scramasax-
Lincoln Comb Case https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?assetId=274572001&objectId=65237&partId=1
Pictograms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictogram
“That’s just peanuts to space” from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy http://hitchhikersguidequotes.tumblr.com/post/13945214509/space-is-big-really-big-you-just-wont-believe
Mnemonics https://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-mnemonics.html
The NATO phonetic alphabet https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_150391.htm
Star Classifications – Oh! Be a fine girl kiss me http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~pac/obafgkmrns.html
Bruce Dickins: Runic and Heroic Poems free PDF: http://www.arild-hauge.com/PDF/Runic%20and%20heroic%20poems%20of%20the%20old%20Teutonic%20peoples.pdf
(not this Bruce Dickinson: https://noisey.vice.com/en_ca/article/8x5byp/bruce-dickinson-has-no-time-for-bullshit )
“We shall call him Zatarra” – The Count of Monte Cristo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi9bEzpYQF4
“Sapristy Yako!” Running joke from Moriarty in The Goon Show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goon_Show_running_jokes
“Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY4cnMmo9qw (3 scenes from the film, The Princess Bride, 1988)
Netflix’s Bandersnatch (potential spoilers ahead): https://www.thewrap.com/black-mirror-bandersnatch-netflix-endings-references-charlie-brooker-embarrassed/
Lord of the Rings Trilogy extended cut: http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_Extended_Edition
Anglo Saxon riddles: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sll/disciplines/english/beowulf/riddle.htm
Kennings – compound metaphors: http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/changlang/activities/lang/anglosaxon/anglosax.html
Star Trek Next Generation episode: Darmok http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Darmok_(episode)
Aleph – first letter of the Hebrew alphabet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph
Dotted runes: https://www.britannica.com/topic/runic-alphabet
The fourth rune poem (list): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abecedarium_Nordmannicum
‘30 days hath September’: https://interestingliterature.com/2018/09/11/a-short-analysis-of-the-thirty-days-hath-september-rhyme/
William McGonogall, hailed as the writer of the worst poetry available in the English language: http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/ :
That one author that significantly changes the order of the runes (and has 25 runes): https://www.amazon.com/Book-Runes-25th-Anniversary-Bestselling/dp/0312536763
Russian Cyrillic script: http://www.russianforeveryone.com/RufeA/Lessons/Introduction/Alphabet/Alphabet.htm
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42916/jabberwocky
The Quangle Wangle’s Hat by Edward Lear - http://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/the-quangle-wangles-hat/
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January 1st, 2019
Episode 49 – The Seeress in the Saga
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
“Don’t run, we are your friends.” - from Mars Attacks! (1996) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Attacks!
Lagertha – from the TV series Vikings: http://vikings.wikia.com/wiki/Lagertha
Dallas – TV series (1978 – 1991) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077000/
Dynasty – TV series (1981 – 1989) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynasty_(1981_TV_series)
Eastenders – TV series (1985 onwards) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088512/
Harald Bluetooth, King of Denmark - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Harald-I-king-of-Denmark
Blue and red contact points for a car battery: you can see the red and blue markers on these pictures: https://www.wikihow.com/Clean-Battery-Terminals
Thing – an annual meeting or gathering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_(assembly)
The Saga of Erik the Red – (Chapter 4 has the visit of Thorbjorg the seeress). http://sagadb.org/eiriks_saga_rauda.en
The fox, chicken and bag of grain: a logic puzzle/ brainteaser https://riddlesbrainteasers.com/fox-chicken-sack-grain/
Itinerant fixers: Supernatural(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460681/), Michael Knight (http://knight-rider.wikia.com/wiki/Michael_Knight) , The Littlest Hobo https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078644/ , David Banner (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Hulk_(1978_TV_series)
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December 21st, 2018
Episode 48 – Now We Are Two – The Second Random Reel
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Airplane mode
An Idris Elba Shaped Wish
Animals of Bohemia
Basingstoke and Giggleswick
Brain Fart
Buttons Beans and Bobs
Click Queen
Cold Coffee Mode
Kate reads Cassius
Chicken, Fox, Duck, Grain and Kate
Handwriting Squiggle
Kate Calls for a Fluffer
Kate Moves the World Wasp
Long Loooong Maaaaaan
The Definition of Cheese
The Passion of Archaeologists
The Quality of the Mirror Universe
Three Little Norns from School take one
Too Slow Chicken Merengo
Trout a la Creme
Two Sneezes
Unofficial Squirrel
We’ve been doing Frithcast for two years. Forty eight regular episodes and a good handful of Extras. You’ve been listening to a heathen and a coffee-powered Druid chatter on for two years. And you, lovely listeners, are the reason that we have. So, we’d like to say thank you, in the only way that we can: to celebrate our second birthday, we’d like to present you with a very special episode. As last years random reel, we present clips of some of the funny moments that didn’t quite make it to the episodes.
Thank you from us to you, we hope you enjoy, and carry on listening 
Suzanne and Kate
December 1st, 2018
Episode 47 – Heathenry on a Budget
Shout out and big wave to Ethan Finley for suggesting the topic for this episode.
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Total Immersion video games https://www.quora.com/Why-has-virtual-reality-and-total-immersion-video-gaming-been-slow-to-evolve
Better than Life - Red Dwarf episode, Season 2, episode 2, originally aired September 1988 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Than_Life_(Red_Dwarf_episode)
Phoebe Buffay – Character from Friends (1994 – 2004) https://friends.fandom.com/wiki/Phoebe_Buffay
Schrodinger’s Cat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOYyCHGWJq4
47 and Star Trek http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/47 (not just confined to Star Trek - https://www.higgypop.com/news/47-reference/ )
11:21 and X-Files - http://www.lunacynet.com/xfiles/xf1013.html
Greeting in Latin: Ave and Salve https://blogs.transparent.com/latin/latin-greetings/ to hear it spoken, head here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3PPtY-YPHo
Havamal translations on the internet – there are a good number available for you to read and study. Here are some bits to get you started:
Dr Jackson Crawford (long video!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veRChLMC20o
Bellows translation http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/poe/poe04.htm
Thorpe, Hollander and Bellows can be found here: http://www.heathenhof.com/the-havamal-3-translations/
Auden and Taylor’s translation is here: https://www.ragweedforge.com/havamal.html
For books: check out your local library stock or ask about inter-library loans, or getting copies of academic papers. They may cost a small fee this way, but it’s often cheaper than buying a copy for yourself.
Befriend librarians – they are your friend in your ongoing research.
The Librarian – from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. He’s an Orangutan. Don’t, whatever you do, call him a monkey. https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Librarian
If you really, really want a copy for yourself – look at second-hand book finding companies, e-book editions (there are several e-book readers that have apps for smartphones), or pre-loved copies available at your favourite online book seller.
Lint rollers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lint_remover
Universities can also be useful – if they do relevant courses, ask the department admin staff very nicely for a copy of the course reading list. Some University libraries will allow non-students to access the materials – you may have to apply for a library card, and may not be able to lend materials, but study them inside the library building.
Check museums for their collections – some have pictures and descriptions of their collection items online, or special themed events/ lectures hosted at the museum. Museum staff may also be able to help you with little nuggets of specialist knowledge, or help your find other appropriate contacts. There’s a good starting place in the British Museum Room 41, of which there are plenty of photos and video online. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaYYxVWruB8
There are lots of academics/ authors directly available to follow through the wonders of social media – check on hashtags, look for favourite academics, or authors of your favourite non-fiction books and see what they’re posting about.
Mjolnir’s are available, along with other Norse-themed jewelry, for all budgets and styles. You can get them in bronze, pewter, iron, silver, gold, in wood, clay, bone, glass, pretty much any material that you’d like to try. There are copies of archaeological finds, modern or plain designs, ones inset with stones or crystal, so it’s pretty much up to you. If you want to wear one. It’s optional not mandatory.
Books on Wicca tend to emphasise having plenty of tools or items to aid in doing ritual. Again it’s personal and up to you. We’ve found Scott Cunningham’s books and Issac Bonewit’s books as good places to start.
Relevant academic papers and some PhD thesis are available online for free – some papers may need you to have access to a service, like JSTOR or Wiley. You may still be able to read the abstract online without having to pay. You may be able to get a copy of the paper through your local library (much cheaper than buying a copy through getting a JSTOR account for yourself), either by putting a request into the library to get a copy of it, or the library may have account access to JSTOR.
Guttenberg Project – go! Go find free books! https://www.gutenberg.org/
There’s one more source of info that’s invaluable in studying and research – other heathens! Ask questions online about what others have found useful, for book or article recommendations, or for a bit of encouragement as you delve into your own research
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November 15th, 2018
Episode 46 – Theological Reflection
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Airplane! (1980) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080339/
Praxis – the Klingon energy facility http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Praxis
Duracell Bunny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duracell_Bunny
The Praxis Effect https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-praxis-effect-in-movies
Thagomiser – after Gary Larson’s Far Side cartoon commemorating the late Thag Simmons - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/watch-out-for-that-thagomizer-98891562/
Beer Goggles https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=beer%20goggles
The raven on the Ark: https://www.gotquestions.org/Noah-raven-dove.html
“Step three… profit...” Paraphrased from the Underpants Gnomes Business Plan in South Park https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO5sxLapAts (Season 2, episode 17 - ‘Gnomes’)
Greek myths held social values and acceptable actions https://brewminate.com/the-function-of-mythology-in-ancient-greek-society/
Pax Daeorum http://www.ancientpages.com/2018/05/01/what-was-pax-deorum-and-how-important-was-it/
Starting a reflective journal: https://penzu.com/how-to-write-a-reflective-journal and https://www.thecounsellorscafe.co.uk/single-post/2017/01/22/Reflective-Journaling-A-Step-by-Step-Guide
“There are many like them, but these ones are yours...” Paraphrased from the Rifleman’s Creed – used in the film Full Metal Jacket (1987), based on Gustav Hasford’s book The Short Timers (1979)
“Brains like Noodles...” Paraphrased from Invader Zim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bsfWTQKCF0
47 – The repeating Star Trek number http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/47 (and also from Alias)
The process of theological reflection:
1) Define the issue
2) Describe the issue in as much detail as you can
3) Look at parallels and links within your faith
4)Allow those insights and links to widen your thinking about the issue
5) Praxis – it’s action time! What are you doing to do now?
If you’d like to explore Theological Reflection for yourself, there’s a good book out there – it does focus on the Christian traditions, but the methods are the same. “Theological Reflection” by Judith Thompson 2008 (SCM Study Guides)
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November 1st, 2018
Episode 45 – The Binding of Loki
Shout out to Rob Wessley from Australia for suggesting the topic for this episode
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Throughout this episode we refer to Loki as he/him. If you know them by other pronouns (they do change their species and gender after all), such as she/her, they/them or something else, it’s all good. Our choice of pronouns may not reflect your valid experiences of the Trickster.
Lemuralia – Roman festival of the dead, originally celebrated in May, rather than October. http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Lemuralia.html
Dr Peter Venkman – from Ghostbusters https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087332/characters/nm0000195
The Binding of Issac http://bindingofisaac.wikia.com/wiki/The_Binding_of_Isaac_Wiki
The Binding of Loki can be found in two sources: The Poetic Edda: Lokasenna and in the Prose Edda Gylfaginning 50.
Talking tricksters: Frithcast episode 26
Spirograph https://www.smythstoys.com/uk/en-gb/toys/creativity-music-and-partyware/art-sets/the-original-spirograph-design-set-boxed/p/149468
Battlestar Galactica (remake) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlestar_Galactica_(2004_TV_series)
Metaphor in The Book of Revelation. Here: https://bibleforums.org/showthread.php/223165-Metaphor-or-Symbol-how-to-interpret-the-book-of-Revelation and here: https://readingacts.com/2012/04/06/revelation-and-metaphors/
Celtic Salmon of Knowledge http://www.luminarium.org/mythology/ireland/salmonknowledge.htm
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