{"podcast":{"title":"KnotWork Myth & Storytelling","slug":"knotwork-myth-storytelling-4838097","podcast_index_feed_id":4838097,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/knotworkstorytelling/","website_url":"https://www.knotworkstorytelling.com/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/7dc2054f-faa8-4586-9f67-375d2e1ee645/pswm055DgvTaYncB2_6_7oSa.jpg","author":"Marisa Goudy","episode_count":131,"summary":"On KnotWork, we explore the mythology and folklore of Ireland, and beyond. Episodes begin with a story, followed by a deep dive conversation about how this age-old tale still resonates today. Our guests include oral storytellers, writers, artists, musicians, and spiritual leaders. Occasionally, in our Myth Workers and Culture Makers series, our guest offers a song, a meditation, or another bit of creative magic. We talk about what it means to live a myth-inspired life. These conversations explore our relationship to land and to identity, particularly related to what it means to be Irish and a member of the Irish diaspora. Whether you’re drawn to Celtic culture or the mysteries that linger at ancient sacred sites, or whether you just like a good story and expansive conversation, you’re in the right place. Welcome. Fáilte. Your host is Marisa Goudy, author of The Sovereignty Knot: A Woman’s Way to Freedom, Power, Love, and Magic. She is a myth worker, a story healer, a writing coach who lives on the lands of the Lenape people (New York’s Hudson Valley). She holds an MA in Irish literature from University College Dublin.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-02T18:17:50.085935+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/knotwork-myth-storytelling-4838097"},"episode":{"title":"Ciarán and His Wild, Holy Kin | S6 Ep40","slug":"ciar-n-and-his-wild-holy-kin-s6-ep40","published_at":"2026-01-08T12:45:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/knotwork-myth-storytelling-4838097/ciar-n-and-his-wild-holy-kin-s6-ep40","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/knotwork-myth-storytelling-4838097","url":"https://knotworkstorytelling.com/episode/ciaran-and-his-wild-holy-kin-s6-ep40","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/0c366159-7b2d-41c9-a297-16ff8dd0a00f.mp3","summary":"Write Your Book With Us In 2026 The Authors’ Knot Program , February - November 2026 Registration is open now for our intimate 10-month online writing program for thought leaders, memoirists, novelists. and heart-led visionaries working on a book or another “big project.” Learn more and apply to join the Authors’ Knot. Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine. Words Are Magic OUR STORY Ciarán of Saighir was born jus as Christianity was emerging in Ireland. This is the story of a woman’s vision, a long pilgrimage, and what happens when you keep company with a boar, a wolf, a badger, and a fox in a very inhospitable forest. The story was recorded during a Myth Workers’ Salon, a gathering of Myth Is Medicine newsletter subscribers. If you’d like to join the next gathering and hear the story before it’s on the podcast, sing up or upgrade your current subscription at: https://mythismedicine.substack.com/ IN THIS EPISODE January 6 and all of its spiritual and traditional celebrations: Little Christmas, Epiphany , Nollaig Na mBan (“women’s Christmas” in the Irish) The human habit of trying to tame the wild and the trouble with anthropocentrism Connecting with the animal nature within and reconnecting to nature in a profound, elemental way What it means to be a liminal creature, to hold space for both worlds, for multiple traditions, like paganism and Catholicism Sources of this story: John Moriarty in Invoking Ireland , Martin Shaw in Jawbone , Ciaran Carson’s The Star Factory in which he quotes Patricia Lynch’s Knights of God OUR STORY Ciarán of Saighir was born jus as Christianity was emerging in Ireland. This i…","meta_description":"Write Your Book With Us In 2026 The Authors’ Knot Program , February - November 2026 Registration is open now for our intimate 10-month online writing pro…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2130,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/knotwork-myth-storytelling-4838097/episodes/ciar-n-and-his-wild-holy-kin-s6-ep40/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/knotwork-myth-storytelling-4838097/ciar-n-and-his-wild-holy-kin-s6-ep40.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}