February 24, 2017 • 13m
Welcome to Crash Course World Mythology, our latest adventure (and this series may be literally adventurous) in education. Over th...Read more
March 3, 2017 • 13m
Today on Crash Course Mythology we’re starting in on creation stories. This week, we’ll focus on the creation of the universe out ...Read more
March 11, 2017 • 13m
In which Mike teaches you about the creation of the universe, with sex. This week we're talking about creations stories from Egypt...Read more
March 17, 2017 • 13m
So, we’re still talking about sex this week, but we’re talking about Earth Mothers and their children. We'll start with Gaia, and ...Read more
March 25, 2017 • 13m
In which Mike Rugnetta sits you down for a little talk about myth as a way to construct or reinforce social orders. Specifically, ...Read more
March 31, 2017 • 13m
In which Mike Rugnetta brings you the final installation of our unit on creation myths. This week, we're talking about human being...Read more
April 7, 2017 • 13m
In which Mike Rugnetta begins our unit on pantheons, which are families of gods. We further define pantheons and talk about why th...Read more
April 14, 2017 • 13m
In which Mike Rugnetta continues our unit on pantheons with the complex Indian pantheon, focusing on stories that were written in ...Read more
April 22, 2017 • 13m
This week, we continue our look at various Pantheons, and Mike digs deep into the gods of the ancient Greeks. We're talking Zeus, ...Read more
April 30, 2017 • 13m
This week, we're headed north. To check out the gods of the Northmen. Or the Norse. That's right, we're talking Thor, Loki, Freyr,...Read more
May 12, 2017 • 13m
So, today we’re talking about African Pantheons. Now, you might say, that’s ridiculous. Africa isn’t a single place with a single ...Read more
May 21, 2017 • 13m
This week, we're talking about theories of Myth. We'll look at the different ways mythology has been studied in the last couple of...Read more
May 28, 2017 • 13m
This week on Crash Course Mythology, we're talking archetypes. Specifically, we're talking about archetypes as they're applied to ...Read more
June 2, 2017 • 13m
This week, we’re continuing our talk about the characteristics of Goddesses, and we’re going to look in depth at two stories from ...Read more
June 9, 2017 • 13m
This week on Crash Course Mythology, Mike is teaching you about the archetypes that are often associated with male divinities. We’...Read more
June 16, 2017 • 13m
This week on Crash Course Mythology, Mike is talking to you about floods. You may have heard the story of Noah and the Ark from th...Read more
July 1, 2017 • 13m
On this Crash Course in World Mythology, Mike Rugnetta is teaching you about floods and deluges, specifically in China. In Chinese...Read more
July 9, 2017 • 13m
We don’t want to deluge you with information on the subject, but this week on Crash Course Mythology, Mike Rugnetta is talking onc...Read more
July 14, 2017 • 13m
This week on Crash Course World Mythology, it's the Circle of Life. And Death. And sometimes, Life again. Mike Rugnetta is teachin...Read more
July 21, 2017 • 13m
This week, Mike introduces you to Tricksters, starting with Anansi, the West African trickster god who is also sometimes a spider....Read more
August 6, 2017 • 13m
In which Mike Rugnetta continues to teach you about tricksters. In this episode, we're talking about tricksters as culture heroes....Read more
August 12, 2017 • 13m
Mike Rugnetta continues to teach you about Tricksters in myth, and this time we're headed to the Americas. Coyote and Raven appear...Read more
August 18, 2017 • 13m
Mike Rugnetta is going to tell you stories of death, destruction, divine judgment, damnation, and the occasional happy ending. Tha...Read more
August 26, 2017 • 13m
Ragnarok! It's the end of the world, Norse style. It's got everything you want in an apocalypse. Earthquakes, destruction, armies ...Read more
September 2, 2017 • 13m
Let's get Heroic with Mike Rugnetta. This week on Crash Course World Mythology, we're talking about the Hero's Journey and the Mon...Read more
September 8, 2017 • 13m
This week, we're continuing our discussion of heroes by talking about Gilgamesh, star of one of the earliest written hero stories,...Read more
September 22, 2017 • 13m
The next entry in our parade of heroes is Rama, the protagonist of the Ramayana, one of India’s oldest stories. We’re going to be ...Read more
September 29, 2017 • 13m
In which Mike Rugnetta quests for knowledge of the Holy Grail of Mythology. Which is the actual, literal Holy Grail! The cup of Ch...Read more
October 7, 2017 • 13m
In which Mike Rugnetta teaches you about the hero of The Congo, Mwindo! Mike will tell you the stories of Mwindo's birth, his many...Read more
October 14, 2017 • 13m
This week, Mike Rugnetta re-introduces Herakles, the strong man of Greek and Roman myth. Strongman with a darkside, that is. You'l...Read more
October 22, 2017 • 13m
In which Mike Rugnetta teaches you about Ma'ui, prominent hero of many cultures in Oceania, aka the Pacific Island nations. Ma'ui ...Read more
October 29, 2017 • 13m
This week, Mike Rugnetta is teaching you about mythical gardens and caves, which appear in cultures all over the world. Caves and ...Read more
November 5, 2017 • 13m
Our mythical places series continues, and this week Mike Rugnetta is talking about some stories that revolve around mountains. Mou...Read more
November 12, 2017 • 13m
This week on CC Myth, Mike Rugnetta is teaching you about mythical trees. There are lots of trees in myth, and we've touched on so...Read more
November 18, 2017 • 13m
This week on Crash Course Mythology, we're getting urban. Mike Rugnetta is the man with the orange umbrella who's about to give yo...Read more
December 1, 2017 • 13m
This week, we're starting our discussion of Mythical Creatures with the WORST creatures. Monsters. What makes a monster monstrous ...Read more
December 17, 2017 • 13m
Horses have been human companions for thousands of years, and have been essential companions and tools for the development of huma...Read more
December 22, 2017 • 13m
This week, Mike is teaching you about the most mythic of mythological creatures: Dragons. Cultures across the world (and across We...Read more
January 12, 2018 • 13m
In which Mike Rugnetta teaches you about the stories we tell about witches and hags. It's definitely unfortunate that a lot of soc...Read more
January 19, 2018 • 13m
In which Mike Rugnetta teaches you about Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, and how a lot of their work was influenced by myth and mytho...Read more
January 28, 2018 • 13m
It's the end of the world, everybody. Well, it's the end of our mythology series, anyway. This week, we're talking about how mytho...Read more