Episode Details

From Maui as a trickster god with Prometheus parallels to the real history of Polynesian navigation and the thousand year pause in ocean voyaging, this episode covers the cosmology, the demons, the hidden connections to Frazer's Golden Bough, and why mountains might actually be fossilized giants. Plus: why Italy had to rename the movie, the Aarne Thompson folklore index entries that match the plot, and whether Moana is a princess, a shaman, or something else entirely.