Lore 314: Hive Mind
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Lore 314: Hive Mind

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 7, 202627 min

Not all big stories are about equally large characters. In the world of folklore, sometimes even the littlest players have a massive stage to perform upon. Narrated and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with writing by GennaRose Nethercott, research by Cassandra de Alba, and music by Chad Lawson. ————————— BUY EXHUMED TODAY: aaronmahnke.com/exhumed ————————— Lore Resources: Get Ad-Free Lore: lorepodcast.com/support Episode Music: lorepodcast.com/music Episode Sources: lorepodcast.com/sources Official Lore Merchandise: lorepodcast.com/shop ————————— Sponsors: BetterHelp: Lore is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at BetterHelp.com/LORE, and get...

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past. Everywhere you look, there are Puritan graveyards, old creaking churches, and crumbling

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["The past. Everywhere you look, there are Puritan graveyards, old creaking churches, and crumbling stone walls built by long dead hands. History is both all around us, and something so impossibly distant, it can be hard to imagine the people who lived in those times were ever truly

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real. But then again, the past is relative. After all, the Massachusetts Bay colony was founded less than 400 years ago. Compare that to the Colosseum or the Great Pyramids, and me and John Proctor are practically twins. And then there's folks like the San people of Southern Africa, one of the world's oldest

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continuous cultures still practicing traditions they started 44,000 years ago. And way back then, even they found themselves thinking about what came before. You see, the San people have a myth that tells the story of how humans were first created.

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