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Manas — The Earliest Recordings — Part 10 of 31 (The Memorial Feast of Kokotoy — Part Three)
Season 11 Episode 10
The games of Kokotoy's memorial feast go on. First the foot-race: Toshtuk, whom no one under the earth overtakes in the leap, against the grey old wo…
3 days, 7 hours ago
Myths of the Cherokee — Part 14 of 22 (The Haunted Whirlpool · Yahula · The Iroquois Wars)
Season 12 Episode 14
Whirlpools, a lost trader, and a peace. At Un'tiguhi', the Pot-in-the-water, a canoe is drawn into the Suck, and the survivor looks down through the …
3 days, 7 hours ago
Fairy Tales of Japan — Part 5 of 24 (The Story of Princess Hase)
Season 16 Episode 5
Hase-Hime, the prayer-born daughter of Prince Toyonari Fujiwara, grows up motherless under a stepmother who hates her — and answers every unkindness …
3 days, 7 hours ago
Fairy Tales of Japan — Part 4 of 24 (The “Shinansha,” or the South Pointing Carriage · The Adventures of Kintaro, the Golden Boy)
Season 16 Episode 4
Two tales from old Japan. First, the shinansha: a wonderful carriage whose little figure always points to the south, invented by a mythical emperor t…
3 days, 9 hours ago
Popol Vuh — Part 4 of 15 (The Fathers and the Summons of Xibalba)
Season 13 Episode 4
In The Fathers, the book turns back to name the fathers of Hunahpu and Xbalanque: Hunhun-Ahpu and Vucub-Hunahpu, begotten by Xpiyacoc and Xmucané, fa…
3 days, 9 hours ago
Nasreddin Hodja — Part 2 of 20 (Letters and the First Donkeys)
Season 17 Episode 2
Twenty more anecdotes of the Hodja. A doctor who shuts his eyes at the burial ground, vinegar that needed a year to become itself, a dreadful book of…
3 days, 9 hours ago
Heer Ranjha — Part 9 of 9 (The Escape Discovered · Before the Raja · The Poisoning of Heer and the Death of Ranjha · Epilogue)
Season 10 Episode 9
The classic Punjabi romance of Heer Siyal of Jhang and Dheedo Ranjha of Takht Hazara, from Heer (1766), the beloved verse epic of Waris Shah — the ta…
3 days, 11 hours ago
Heer Ranjha — Part 6 of 9 (The Jogi Leaves Tilla · Ranjha Arrives at Rangpur)
Season 10 Episode 6
The classic Punjabi romance of Heer Siyal of Jhang and Dheedo Ranjha of Takht Hazara, from Heer (1766), the beloved verse epic of Waris Shah — the ta…
3 days, 11 hours ago
Nasreddin Hodja — Part 1 of 20 (From the Pulpit)
Season 17 Episode 1
The shelf opens where the old folk book opens — in the pulpit. Asked whether he knows what he is going to preach, the Hodja finds three different way…
3 days, 11 hours ago
Heer Ranjha — Part 3 of 9 (Scandal in the Village · The Kazi Admonishes Heer · The Audience of the Five Pirs · Kaidu Is Answered)
Season 10 Episode 3
The classic Punjabi romance of Heer Siyal of Jhang and Dheedo Ranjha of Takht Hazara, from Heer (1766), the beloved verse epic of Waris Shah — the ta…
3 days, 12 hours ago