# 387: Sweat to Eggs: Blavatsky's Root Races (Teaser)

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Podcast: [The Empire Never Ended](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-empire-never-ended-1611209)
Published: 2026-07-30T15:43:00+00:00
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TENE takes a trip to Polaris, Lemuria, and Hyperborea to try and make sense of Helena Blavatsky's "Root Races," a fundamental component of Theosophist cosmology and Blavatsky's totally-not-sketchy contribution to evolutionary theory. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

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