In this mythcast, I go into the story of Buobo (and her Boar), a peculiar deity who is most certainly older than the Greek pantheon. She plays an absolutely essential role in earth mother Demeter’s ability to find her daughter Persephone after the maiden was stolen by Hades, God of the Underworld. 

Some of you might have heard me tell a version of this story a few years ago - here, I have totally re-written my first vets, prompted in part because of the poor quality of the original audio) Buobo is sometimes referred to as a ‘Vagina Goddess'. She sometimes is claimed as part of the queer pantheon, and has become increasingly recognized for her role in 'obscene humor'. Bust magazine did an expo on her a few years ago, which entails some good research and some interesting-sounding-books, but misses some of the subtle but beautiful points made by one of my teacher-heroines, Clarissa Estes, who, in Women Who Run With the Wolves, devotes an entire chapter to "Sacred Lust.” these highly amusing stories have the ability to transform grief/despair into amusement, and thus to enable things that have been stuck and dreary to flow again.  It is a powerful lesson: humor, including the most base, can be a crux point that can transform the world. 

This Mythcast is created with original music created for this podcast by my friend, musician, and sound engineer Nik Kemmer.   He's also going to be doing the music for my forthcoming course on, "update from the middle ages,' which will go deeper into some of the aspects of the Middle Ages in Europe that contributed to the Doctrine of Discovery and the shape of modern institutions and some of our contemporary challenges today - its an elaboration of a really key piece of the ReMembering Course which I’m opening up again for the first time in over a year.  More on that later. 

I hope you enjoy this piece (total running time:.....)  

And I hope that as Spring Equinox approaches, you are getting time/space for a lot of creative play. 

Have fun out there!

Sara Jolena