Quick disclaimer, we're back in Greek myths, so all the usual Greek myths disclaimers apply.

Please check out the post on myth podcast.com for more info.

This week on myths and

myths and legends, we'll learn why you shouldn't build a house with sacred timbers,

how to make your baby grow into a big strong adult in about 30 seconds, and the brutal origin of breathments.

The creature this week is why you shouldn't approach that spiky

swaying plant that looks like a bunch of angry arguing snakes. This is a podcast where we tell stories from legends episode 372 things as they are.

This is a podcast where we tell stories from mythology and folklore.

Some are incredibly popular stories you might think you know but with surprising origins

and others are tales that might be new to you but are definitely worth a listen.

This is the seventh part of our increasingly inaccurately named monthly series on the Olympians

from Greek myth.

Today it's Demeter, one of Zeus's sisters who has been around for it all.

We'll jump in at the very beginning.

At the origin of the Cosmos, and we'll see how pretty much everything has a very rough start.

Any birth is challenging. Some can be borderline traumatic. Some are traumatic,

I've received some emails over the years regarding my treatment of the baby

Olympians with some people saying hey talking babies are a fun take on the

myths some people saying that the Olympians were never babies how dare you have fun and interpret newborns as being newborns?

And a rare few being threatening, with people telling me I better be careful because the gods

will not

they are a little eight pound six ounce newborn infants with bald heads and chubby hands

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