Revisionist Tales
Heather Sullivan
Myth and stories heal us. Offer us wisdom as we travel through this life. How can a story be divine, offer its beautiful wisdom, and help us with our own story?
Feeling like you want to get into a story and know its roots, its bones? We are divine figures and stories help us, heal us.
I reimagine, reinvent, and retell myths and fairy tales for the modern listener.
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Tyr- The Divine Masculine
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10/23/23 • 28 min
Here I ask an unanswerable question, what is the divine masculine, what does that mean for us? How to embody it? How to feel divine in our bodies, feel connected.
And although, I bring the god Tyr, and ask him, what is the divine masculine, and how can we heal from the toxic masculine?
The damage of our world.
He doe not answer the question directly, but speaks of love, of wolves, of the forest, of sacrifice for peace.
He himself is Divine, and how to appreciate his own divine love and all the ways he shows his own divinity in his own way.
How that is a teacher for us today.
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Medea- the sun queen
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12/09/22 • 49 min
What about the lost sun queen of the east and now villainized as a murderer. Today I will talk about Medea, how she has deep roots in our psychic ancestral memory. I retell her story in the offering that you can recreate your own story. You may invent your own healing within.
This is for those healers and those that wish to be healed.
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Athena- Beyond the wisdom
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03/27/23 • 39 min
Lets get beyond the trading card version of gods. Listing off their facts like baseball stats. What is the purpose, what doc gods teach us about how to be in this world?
For my purpose, I say Athena teaches us how to find ourselves and learn what we think is important. Because do we even think we can understand the gods, the mysteries of this world if we cannot understand our own internal workings?
In this episode, I have a ramble on self awareness and Athena’s backstory then give her a new story where she returns to one of her historical birth places.
Take a listen and change your life.
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Kalypso
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11/18/23 • 29 min
Here, I wonder about the story of Kalypso as she was only briefly mentioned in the Odyssey. I wonder did she keep the king, or likely the king was broken and unable to leave her island and how annyoing that must have been for her.
We all get stuck.
We all get toxic
And for men who have a legacy of intergenerational tramua, who may not know how to be a divine man, I wonder how to help them find their way.
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Inanna- The decent from the above to the great below
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02/27/23 • 44 min
This episode I visit the second oldest recorded story from ancient Sumer, The Descent of Inanna. This story was translated from cuneiform tablets and placed into story form. It is a truly beautiful story with depths beyond depths. I see this story in our everyday lives and it gives us solutions with how to move through the constant up and downs that are present in our lives.
I have been working on creating illustrations to accompany this story, still in progress.
https://heatherbsullivan.com/inanna/
The text written by Wolkstein and Kramer, published in 1983 https://www.amazon.com/Inanna-Queen-Heaven-Earth-Stories/dp/0060908548/ref=sr_1_1?crid=35IS5XVKPF7BF&keywords=inanna+queen+of+heaven+and+earth%2C+by+diane+wolkstein&qid=1677526766&sprefix=Inanna+%2Caps%2C259&sr=8-1
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Ariadne- Mistress of the Labyrinth
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01/15/23 • 42 min
This story explores the lost history surrounding the princess Ariadne who was a big character in the myth of the minotaur. What was her relevance in the well known story other than being abandoned on the island? Was she once a god of power and Then became diminished with the passage of time. How can her story bring meaning to us today? What is the backstory of this Demi god of this lovely name.
Savage Daughter
https://youtu.be/PAuC6gX36tc
Myth of the Goddess, great book
https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Goddess-Evolution-Image/dp/0140192921/ref=nodl_?dplnkId=e8910b65-9f5f-43be-82b4-3c32033144fa
Calendar practices reference
https://arxiv.org/pdf/0910.4801.pdf
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Cinderella- An Ode to Patience
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11/24/22 • 42 min
What can Cinderella teach us today? How can this story be useful as a teacher? This is a story of a journey, but a feminine one that is without fast cars or sword play, a quiet journey that we experience everyday like sorting the socks. So please listen to a story and see if you can find great heart in your day to day tasks.
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Snow White- for the Dark Queens
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10/04/22 • 30 min
My very first episode is a retelling of Snow White. I want to view stories from a feminist lenses. We have long viewed the feminine as dark and evil without any review or understanding.
Sure, I think we all know what that story is, but how about a modern view of the dark queen. I want to have grace for anger, and that no one is a perfect apple pie mom. Motherhood is complex, layered. We are not perfect, though strive for it. And growing from adolescence to adulthood for Snow White is not simple either. How can this story help guide us?
Lets make space for the dark queen and for the deep sleep of Snow White.
I invite you to be entertained and see what stories can teach us.
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Persephone - She who walks in Shadow
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05/27/23 • 40 min
This episode today explores Persephone, her known story as the bride of Hades, Queen of the Dead. But as her name means maker of death, I would propose that she always been the Queen of the Dead. My story today explores her origin, how did she become the queen of the dead if she was not swallowed up by the earth into Hades black chariot.
I have questions about how the destroyer touches us all. How many ways we destroy ourselves, feel the impact of destruction in our world through the environment, in violence, in our families, in deep grief and pain.
I propose that Persephone is not a dread lord, but someone that can be there, be present when we suffer.
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Valkyries- Lay Down your Swords
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01/06/24 • 28 min
I may have gone a bit nutso with all the ideas to marry into one story.
One is melding in the beautiful inquiry of the WYRD, of Nordic cosmology, a philosophy pf deep connection with each other and the world
Mixed with the Valyries and of course the Wyrd sisters.
All in the quest to know spirit
As life without spirit is dull and meaningless.
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FAQ
How many episodes does Revisionist Tales have?
Revisionist Tales currently has 13 episodes available.
What topics does Revisionist Tales cover?
The podcast is about Entertaining, Myth, Dreams, Fun, Storytelling, Podcasts, Arts, Jungian and Performing Arts.
What is the most popular episode on Revisionist Tales?
The episode title 'Valkyries- Lay Down your Swords' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Revisionist Tales?
The average episode length on Revisionist Tales is 37 minutes.
How often are episodes of Revisionist Tales released?
Episodes of Revisionist Tales are typically released every 38 days, 21 hours.
When was the first episode of Revisionist Tales?
The first episode of Revisionist Tales was released on Oct 4, 2022.
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