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Popol Vuh — Part 3 of 15 (Zipacna and Cabracan — the End of the Proud Ones)
Season 13 Episode 3
In Zipacna, Maker of Mountains, the eldest son of Vucub-Cakix carries a great tree for the four hundred young men, survives the pit they dig for him,…
3 days, 13 hours ago
Popol Vuh — Part 2 of 15 (The Wooden Men and the Fall of Seven Macaw)
Season 13 Episode 2
The second part of the Popol Vuh opens with The Wooden Manikins, whose dry and ungrateful hearts bring the flood and the rain of resin upon them, and…
3 days, 13 hours ago
Popol Vuh — Part 1 of 15 (The Ancient Word and the First Creation)
Season 13 Episode 1
The book opens with the Ancient Word of Quiché, in which the K'iche' authors tell why they are writing down what was once hidden. Then comes the Stil…
3 days, 13 hours ago
Fairy Tales of Japan — Part 3 of 24 (The Story of Urashima Taro, the Fisher Lad)
Season 16 Episode 3
Urashima Taro, the most skilful fisherman on the coast of Tango, saves a tortoise from the boys who are tormenting it — and the tortoise returns to c…
3 days, 16 hours ago
Fairy Tales of Japan — Part 2 of 24 (The Tongue-Cut Sparrow)
Season 16 Episode 2
A kind old man's beloved pet sparrow eats his wife's rice-paste by mistake, and the scolding that follows drives the little bird from the house forev…
3 days, 17 hours ago
Fairy Tales of Japan — Part 1 of 24 (My Lord Bag of Rice)
Season 16 Episode 1
The warrior Fujiwara Hidesato steps calmly over a sleeping dragon on the bridge of Seta, and finds himself led beneath the waters of Lake Biwa to the…
3 days, 17 hours ago
Sergei Esenin — Fifteen More Poems (1914)
Season 5 Episode 9
Sergei Esenin — Fifteen More Poems (1914)
Fifteen lyrics by Sergei Esenin, all from 1914 — the year the nineteen-year-old village poet broke into prin…
3 days, 19 hours ago
Myths of the Cherokee — Part 13 of 22 (Tsul'kalu', the Slant-eyed Giant · Kana'sta, the Lost Settlement · The Man Who Married the Thunder's Sister)
Season 12 Episode 13
Myths of the Cherokee — Part 13 of 22 (Tsul'kalu', the Slant-eyed Giant · Kana'sta, the Lost Settlement · The Man Who Married the Thunder's Sister)
Th…
3 days, 20 hours ago
The Thousand and One Nights — The Fisherman and the Genie — Part One
Season 8 Episode 3
The Thousand and One Nights — The Fisherman and the Genie — Part One
A poor fisherman draws up a sealed copper vessel and frees a jinni who has sworn …
3 days, 20 hours ago
Popular Tales from the Norse — Part 2 of 14 (The Mastermaid — Part One)
Season 14 Episode 2
Popular Tales from the Norse — Part 2 of 14 (The Mastermaid — Part One)
Boots out-tells a princess, a fox talks his way into work, and a prince meets …
3 days, 20 hours ago