Breakfast With Gilgamesh

di Z. K. Leverton

Before we built the first great cities, reaped our first harvest, or listened to our first podcast, we were telling stories. Stories about us, the world we lived in, and the gods above. we used them to remember where we come from and to wonder where we might be going. In the spirit of the oral storyteller, humanity's oldest artform, I'm going to tell you a story. It might be a myth, a folktale, or something else entirely, bu ... 

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Episodi del podcast

  • Stagione 2

  • Breakfast With Gilgamesh 11: Tales of Moonlight and Rain

    Breakfast With Gilgamesh 11: Tales of Moonlight and Rain

    We take a trip to Japan to sample one of the richest storytelling traditions on earth, one almost lost to time and industry.

  • Breakfast with Gilgamesh 10: The Great Sage Equal To Heaven

    Breakfast with Gilgamesh 10: The Great Sage Equal To Heaven

    We return to the mountain of flower and fruit just as the next grand adventure of Son Wukong the Monkey King begins with havoc in heaven.

  • Breakfast with Gilgamesh Episode 9: A Menagerie of the Imagination

    Breakfast with Gilgamesh Episode 9: A Menagerie of the Imagination

    This episode, we take a stroll through a zoo of fantastical creatures from across cultural traditions. Art by Sam Beck, Written, produced and narrated by Z.K. Leverton, Music by Thomas Houlden.

  • Breakfast With Gilgamesh Episode 8: Thanatos in Troy

    Breakfast With Gilgamesh Episode 8: Thanatos in Troy

    This episode, we dive deep into the Greek underworld with Aristos Achaion. Art by Sam Beck, Written and produced by Z.K. Leverton, Narrated by Syd Lazarus, Music by Thomas Houlden. Sam Beck's artwork https://zkleverton.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/fb6d0a17-bd7d-43e0-a5a9-eda350f05111-1.jpeg?w=1338

  • Breakfast With Gilgamesh Episode 7: The Nights

    Esplicito

    Breakfast With Gilgamesh Episode 7: The Nights

    Esplicito

    For hundreds of years, The Nights have been a source of inspiration, comfort, and culture around the world. In this episode, host Z.K Leverton puts his own spin on The Three Women of Baghdad, one of the most beloved Nights. Written and hosted by Z.K Leverton Music by Thomas Holden Art by Sam Beck