As Ed says at the end of our final episode of 2024, “Have yourself a mythic little Christmas!” We close the year with a wandering conversation about folklore, myth, modernity as being “away with the fairies” and hopefully bringing back something of worth from the journey.Show Notes* Ed’s new book of poetry, The Father’s Road, is <a target="_blank" href="https://www.etsy.com/se-en/listing/1824061612/the-fathers-road-poetry-collection?click_key=2c0f79d25c43dd0a3ab63f8c19f8f8f84d5939d3%3A1824061612&click_sum=9313c943&ref=shop_home_active_1">available now through Etsy.</a>* Roger Deakin, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.google.se/books/edition/Wildwood/7V5AurYY_GIC?hl=en&gbpv=0">Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees</a>.* Alan Garner’s <a target="_blank" href="https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/collected-folk-tales-alan-garner?variant=40157865214030">Collected Folk Tales</a>.* <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/36342309-martin-shaw">Martin Shaw</a>’s <a target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/p/Westcountry-school-of-myth-and-story-100025890138105/">Westcountry School of Myth</a>.* On three ways of handling the “spiritual gelignite” of myth – retelling, translation and reabsorption/transmutation – Alan Garner’s essay, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.academia.edu/68953570/Book_review_the_death_of_myth">‘The Death of Myth’</a>, originally published in the New Statesman, 1970.* <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Owl_Service">The Owl Service</a> – Garner’s transmutation of the myth of Blodeuwedd.* For more on the Winnebago Trickster Cycle, see Paul Radin’s <a target="_blank" href="https://yale.imodules.com/s/1667/images/gid6/editor_documents/yacol_fall_course_readings/flick_readings/radin__the_winnebago_trickster_cycle.pdf?sessionid=a641a3f1-47fd-41ec-8541-29035b1491d3&cc=1">The Trickster</a>.* Three recent pieces from <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/2285370-mary-harrington">Mary Harrington</a> – <a target="_blank" href="https://www.maryharrington.co.uk/p/woke-is-not-the-new-reformation">‘“Woke” Is Not The New Reformation’</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.maryharrington.co.uk/p/scrolling-toward-the-divine">‘Scrolling Toward The Divine’</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.maryharrington.co.uk/p/yes-the-woke-right-is-real">‘Yes, the “Woke Right” is real’</a>.* The Levi-Strauss line about “science, which started out by separating itself from myth, will eventually encounter it once again” is discussed in Debi Danowski and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s <a target="_blank" href="https://www.wiley.com/en-ie/The+Ends+of+the+World-p-9781509503971">The Ends of the World</a>.* James Bridle, <a target="_blank" href="https://jamesbridle.com/books/new-dark-age">New Dark Age</a>.* We’ll talk about D.W. Pasulka’s <a target="_blank" href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/american-cosmic-9780190692889">American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology</a> later in the series, when Ed’s had the chance to read it.* Wendell Berry, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.google.se/books/edition/The_Need_to_Be_Whole/YXjuzgEACAAJ?hl=en">The Need to Be Whole</a>.* Ernest J. Gaines, <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Gathering_of_Old_Men">A Gathering of Old Men</a>.* Alan Dundes, <a target="_blank" href="https://iupress.org/9780253202406/interpreting-folklore/">Interpreting Folklore</a>. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.homewardbound.org?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">www.homewardbound.org</a>

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