”Flowers become flesh becomes bird…”
The first guest on our show is Jo Blake, a performer working across the disciplines of storytelling, theatre and dance. She has written a PhD about her project of unearthing the mythological character Blodeuwedd (flower-face/owl) from the depths of the Mabinogion - a medieval Welsh text regarded as one of the oldest and most complete repositories of British Celtic Myth.
We talk about mythic ambiguity, female trickster figures and the importance of making the wrong choice...among many other things!
Jo Blake
Blodeuwedd Untold video trailer
Pdf about Jo’s storytelling course Body, Breath & Story
REFERENCES
Four Branches of the Mabinogi (Blodeuwedd is in the Fourth Branch)
Robert Bly
Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches)
Lwa (Vodou)
The sword from the lake
Snorri’s Edda
Voluspa
In the Beginning was the Scream by Henning Kure
Ben Haggarty on commentary - Extract 3: The Storyteller’s Grammar
Book: Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta
Odin on the world tree
Book: Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde
Carl Jung
Numinous
Book: The Soul’s Code by James Hillman
Torgrim Mellum Stene's poem The Fall
Marie-Louise von Franz