The Dispatchist
…A friendly podcast about hell and some other stuff.
The DispatchIst is a friendly ongoing conversation about Hell in its many forms…as a story, as a social technology, as a mythology all its own. Side-topics may or may not include the devil, popular culture, comparative religion, Dungeons and Dragons, mixed drinks, horror films, medieval snuff porn, schadenfreude, whether Tundale could kick Dante’s butt (probably, maybe not in a literary sense), Norwegian death metal, latitudinarianism, and whatever else seems relevent this week.
Recent Episodes…
Ep. 17 – Ladies of Hell Lilith (part 1)
First of a two-parter on the queen of the night, wife and grandmother of the devil, Lilith!
Ep. 16 – Ladies of Hell (Part the First)
The Ladies of Hell – the Pleaides, alewives, The Farmer’s Curst Wife, and Mictecacihuatl!
Ep. 15 – #subwaysatanmixtape
Because the one thing you need if you’re trying to pick up someone in the subway by being the lord of darkness is a sound track.
Ep. 14 – Bringing it home with Gilgamesh and Enkidu
Bittersweet wrap-up of Mesopotamia with the star-crossed bromance of Gilgamesh and Enkidu…
Recent Posts…
Pazuzu’s Dingir
A brief aside on ancient Sumerian deific naming conventions…
Dante’s Inferno in Film
An ongoing list of Dante movie and film adaptations. Someday we will watch them all!
Mickey’s Inferno
Do you remember that one time Mickey went through nine layers of hell? I do.
