Shonaleigh explains something of her motivation for being involved in the "Last Drut'syla" DVD project

The Women Behind The Tradition

The story of how Ruth accused the Wind in front of King Solomon himself, and how she came into possession of more gold and silver and precious gems and jewels than you could possibly imagine… and why men kept appearing on her doorstep in the pouring rain in nothing but their underpants!

Ruth And The Wind

Shonaleigh talks about the drut'syla tradition as an introduction to a telling of the Ruby Tree at Haworth in 2015

Shonaleigh Talks about the Drut'syla Tradition

The first story Shonaleigh told in the Ruby Tree at her telling in Haworth 2015

The King And His Daughters

Image credit: “Portrait of a Heart” by Christian Schloe
(tracklist below)
This mix was released on Kybele in April 2019, I publish it again here for those who have missed it! 

The ancient rites of Kybele honoured the emotional body as the place where healing and transformation was possible. Music was the tool to stir the deep, the intense, the highs, the lows and reveal the mystery of death and rebirth, the infinite symphony of the cycles on nature, the miracle of life on Earth.

Oliver Koletzki-A tribe called kotori (MoM from Home rework) 
Kurup	- Joeira 
Mamazu feat. Alizarina – Nemoricole
Kurup - Minguante (Pigmalião Remix)
Maguera – The cat ho winked at the mouse
Gustavo Santaolalla - De Ushuaia A La Quiaca (Mujia & Tajo Edit)
Radiohead - I Will (Santi Edit)		
Goro - Zenab (original mix)	
Pink Floyd - Sheep (Armando Letico Wolf Edition)	
Markyno - ZenHabitat (Mujia & Tajo Edit)	
Chango Spasiuk - Escenas De La Vida (Muno Edit)	
Inevitable Ending (Viken Arman & Goldcap Remix)		
Holed of Mom - Ven (Original Mix) 
Flamingus - Androgyn (Landhouse Remix)		
Rodrigo Gallardo - Puedo ver		
Mikail Aslan - Xoza (Moguz rework)
Harmoníe - Die Walküre (Original Mix)

CLANDESTINA FOR KYBELE

In this episode I explore the story of Calypso, the nereid daughter of sea-Titans who is infamous for seducing Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey. Here, Calypso gives a different perspective. Here, we see Calypso as a keeper of her lineage's ancestral traditions of seeing and healing, as the powerful keeper of secrets, as a font of wildness and of earthen truth. I wrote this story at the end of April 2019 in Crete, not realizing that its themes of veiling and unveiling, of Apocalypse, would feel so terribly powerfully relevant a year and a few months later. I hope that Calypso's fierce strength, as well as her guileless love and tenderness, bring a new seeing and a new light to your spirit.

This piece was originally shared in my Patreon library, and the written text as well as others like it can be accessed there— https://www.patreon.com/sylvialinsteadt

PODCAST ART: Catherine Sieck
PODCAST MUSIC: Giannis Linardakis (Cretan lute, traditional)
PODCAST SOUND EDITING: Simon Linsteadt

ABOUT THE PODCAST:

Welcome to Kalliope's Sanctum, a biweekly story podcast hosted by writer Sylvia V. Linsteadt. This podcast is dedicated to Kalliope, primordial and first Muse of epic poetry and ecstatic song in ancient Greece. This podcast is a place of sanctuary for her oldest stories. It is a return to the wild garden, to the spring, to the ground of being & the source of inspiration in the Earth. Here, we honor Kalliope as Muse of Earth. Here, you will find some of the stories beneath the stories of Old Europe: short fictional/poetic pieces written and read by Sylvia that explore elements of indigenous Old European mythology, with a focus on pre-Hellenic (pre-Patriarchal) Greece.

Come sit with us in the honeyed light, among the ripe pomegranates, in Kalliope's sanctuary, where the stories that arise directly from the ground of being and lifeforce can still be safely told and celebrated. Come lean against the sun-warmed stones, with the fragrance of propolis & myrrh in the air, and the trees heavy with autumn quince. This is the garden before the fall, a sanctuary for all hearts in this time. Join us, and be revived.

ABOUT SYLVIA V. LINSTEADT:

Sylvia V. Linsteadt is a novelist, poet, scholar of ancient history, myth and ecology, and artist. She divides her time between California & Crete, where she is currently working on a novel set in Minoan times.

Her published fiction includes the middle grade children’s duology The Stargold Chronicles— The Wild Folk (Usborne, June 2018) and The Wild Folk Rising (Usborne, May 2019)— Our Lady of the Dark Country, a collection of short stories (January 2018) and Tatterdemalion (Unbound, Spring 2017); her works of nonfiction include The Wonderments of the East Bay (Heyday 2014), and Lost Worlds of the San Francisco Bay Area (Heyday, Spring 2017).

Website: www.sylvialinsteadt.com/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sylvialinsteadt
Instagram: www.instagram.com/sylviavlinsteadt/
Newsletter: tinyletter.com/sylvialinsteadt

9. Calypso

Welcome to Kalliope's Sanctum, a story podcast hosted by writer Sylvia V. Linsteadt. This podcast is dedicated to Kalliope, primordial and first Muse of epic poetry and ecstatic song in ancient Greece. This podcast is a place of sanctuary for her oldest stories. It is a return to the wild garden, to the spring, to the ground of being & the source of inspiration in the Earth. Here, we honor Kalliope as Muse of Earth. Here, you will find some of the stories beneath the stories of Old Europe: short fictional/poetic pieces written and read by Sylvia that explore elements of indigenous Old European mythology (a term coined by the late archaeologist Marija Gimbutas), with a focus on pre-Hellenic (pre-Patriarchal) Greece.

Come sit with us in the honeyed light, among the ripe pomegranates, in Kalliope's sanctuary, where the stories that arise directly from the ground of being and lifeforce can still be safely told and celebrated.  Come lean against the sun-warmed stones, with the fragrance of propolis & myrrh in the air, and the trees heavy with autumn quince. This is the garden before the fall, a sanctuary for all hearts in this time. Join us, and be revived.

PODCAST SOUND EDITING: Simon Linsteadt
PODCAST ART: Catherine Sieck
PODCAST MUSIC: Antonis Leontidis (Cretan lyra composition from the album Krifo: https://antonisleontidis.bandcamp.com/album/krifo)


ABOUT SYLVIA V. LINSTEADT:

Sylvia V. Linsteadt is a novelist, poet, scholar of ancient history, myth and ecology, and artist. She divides her time between California & Crete, where she is currently working on a novel set in Minoan times.

Her published fiction includes the middle grade children’s duology The Stargold Chronicles— The Wild Folk (Usborne, June  2018) and The Wild Folk Rising (Usborne, May 2019)— Our Lady of the Dark Country, a collection of short stories (January 2018) and Tatterdemalion (Unbound, Spring 2017); her works of nonfiction include The Wonderments of the East Bay (Heyday 2014), and  Lost Worlds of the San Francisco Bay Area (Heyday, Spring 2017). Her short fiction has been published in New California Writing 2013, Dark Mountain, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Golden Key  and Deathless Press. Her creative nonfiction can be found in Dark Mountain, Earthlines Magazine, Poecology, and News from Native California. For three years (from 2013 to 2016) Sylvia ran a stories-in-the-mail business called Wild Talewort, in which she sent out rewilded tellings of fairytales and myths to the physical-post boxes of hundreds of subscribers around the world.

Lost Worlds of the San Francisco Bay Area won the Northern California Book Award in General Nonfiction in 2018.

Website: http://www.sylviavictorlinsteadt.com/
Substack: https://sylviavlinsteadt.substack.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sylviavlinsteadt/
Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/sylvialinsteadt

9. Calypso

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