Best Hittite Podcasts (2025)

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When Karate was a Weapon of the Colonized Working Class: The “China Hand Technique” in Japanese Proletarian Fiction 1:44:36

1d ago1:44:36

1:44:36

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Bonus Feed-Swap with The History of Egypt Podcast 46:03

2d ago46:03

46:03

Hi everyone! My friend Dominic at THoE and I are doing a feed-swap this week. It's a great chance to introduce you to his new set of episodes on the pharaoh Ramesses II. More details from Dominic below. Enjoy! - Scott C. In a land famous for its monarchs – the legendary pharaohs – there is no one quite like Ramesses II. He might be the most famous …

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Episode A3 - Kings of Kish 52:34

6d ago52:34

52:34

Synopsis: This episode covers the Early Dynastic Period in Sumer and northern Syria. “Eannatum gave the great battle net of Enlil to the leader of Umma and made him swear to him by it. The leader of Umma swore to Eannatum: ‘By the life of Enlil, king of heaven and earth! I may exploit the field of Ningirsu as an interest-bearing loan. I shall not d…

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Episode A2 - The First Royal House 49:31

20d ago49:31

49:31

Synopsis: This episode covers the early civilizations of Egypt and the Caucasus region, including the Kura-Araxes and Maikop. “In succession to the Spirits of the Dead and the Demigods, the Egyptians reckon the First Dynasty to consist of eight kings. Among these was Menes (Narmer), whose rule in Egypt was illustrious. I shall record the rulers of …

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13th Episode: Witches Dozen Simple Spells, Candle Spells, using ChatGPT to Create Spells 31:40

22d ago31:40

31:40

Simple Spells, Candle Spells, using ChatGPT to Create Spells

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Episode A1 - The Four Quarters 41:22

1M ago41:22

41:22

Synopsis: The launch of “The Ancient World – Ages”, a new series covering the Early Bronze Age Collapse (c. 2200 BC) and the remaking of Southwest Eurasia. We start things off with a discussion of the Ubaid and Uruk Periods of early Mesopotamia. “After Anu, Enlil, Enki, and Ninhursag Had fashioned the black-headed people, Vegetation luxuriated from…

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Eat the Yellow Powder, Get in the Wara [PREVIEW]: The first king, the first collapse, and the first underground bunker society in the Avesta and the Ṛigveda 1:15:49

2M ago1:15:49

1:15:49

What is the difference between East and West? One helpful line to draw is that between Iranian and Indo-Aryan cultures, as seen in the extremely ancient traditions of the Avesta and the Ṛigveda, respectively. Whereas the common Indo-European heritage of multiple generations of gods (ahuras/asuras vs daēwas/devas, see also titans vs gods—which, as l…

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総論①階級格差社会には始まりがあった 1:00:03

2M ago1:00:03

1:00:03

人類30万年。その大半を占めるさまざまな平等・自由・創造性ある先「史」社会、そして穀物国家における階級闘争五千年のごく小さな誕生。 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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True Names, Shadow work, Banishing 33:38

2M ago33:38

33:38

The first law of magic, True Names, Shadow work, Banishing, Mirth and Reference

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Earth Signs, Blood Moon, Windblown Tradition and Wicca; Hittites and Jewitches. 35:40

3M ago35:40

35:40

Earth Signs, Blood Moon, Windblown Tradition and Wicca; Hittites and Jewitches.

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Spring Equinox Akitu Ritual 28:16

3M ago28:16

28:16

Spring Equinox Akitu Ritual

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Ishtar Rites, My Goddess Experience, Alternative Initiation Pieces 27:04

3M ago27:04

27:04

Ishtar Rites, My Goddess Experience, Alternative Initiation Pieces

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Wiccan Sourcery Material, Introduction to Jewitchery, Purim. 34:36

3M ago34:36

34:36

Thoughts about Wiccan Source Material, Hereditary Witch Magic, Introduction to Jewitchery, Purim.

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The Conversion of Kevin Gaijinson ケビン・ガイジンソンの転向 [PREVIEW] 8:25

4M ago8:25

8:25

To introduce Kevin Gaijinson, the show’s new Japanese language host, I share an old conversation with him from back when he was still a raging weeb spreading Anglo-American imperialism in blissful ignorance while speaking better Japanese than the Emperor, gambling with the yakuza, and teaching very special English lessons to the bored housewives of…

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Required Memorization, Wiccan Code, Oath of Initiation, First Degree Initiation. 34:43

4M ago34:43

34:43

Required Memorization, Wiccan Code, and the Oath of Initiation, and First Degree Initiation.

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Windblown Degree System, pre-Initiation Checklist 36:00

4M ago36:00

36:00

Intro to Windblown Degree System, pre-Initiation Checklist, Summary of Checklists for all Degrees, love, partnerships and Witchcraft.

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Dark Moon and Candlemas 39:34

4M ago39:34

39:34

Ritual timing, Dark Moon Charge, Moon knowledge essentials, Moon Magic, overview of the Sabbats, Inner and Outer Court, Bride’s Day, Upshukina rite.

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Windblown Full Moon Ritual Complete 31:48

4M ago31:48

31:48

Complete Full Moon liturgy without gesture and movement instruction. Music by Karen Beth and Gaia Consort, Christopher Bingham

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More Basics of Coven Ritual 31:41

5M ago31:41

31:41

Handling interruptions, Liminal Experience, Consciousness, Cone of Power, Great Rite.

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Ritual Serial Murder and the Birth of a Ruling Class: Popol Vuh, Title of Totonicapán (Maya, 16th c.) [PREVIEW] 39:55

5M ago39:55

39:55

At the end of the ancient mythology section we discussed last time, the Popol Vuh (here paralleled by the Title of Totonicapán) depicts the restoration of militaristic class society in the K’iche’ corner of the Maya world in the 13th c. CE, after some centuries of relative freedom and equality following the overthrow of the Classic Maya around 950.…

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Roasting out the old year 1:21:38

5M ago1:21:38

1:21:38

Before the dawn of what I hope will be a much more productive year for the podcast, join me in a warm and toasty room for some green tea, guitar, and guileless meditations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Polarity, Sexuality, Divine Identity within Circle, Calling the Goddess and God 32:08

5M ago32:08

32:08

Polarity, Sexuality, Divine Identity within Circle, Calling the Goddess and God.

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Welcome to Your Podcast Coven 32:38

5M ago32:38

32:38

Introductions: Windblown Tradition, Lady Setara. Mission Statement. Blessing of Darkness and Light, Circle Casting, Quarter Evocation, Tool Consecration, Closing

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The Epigraphic Survey and Chicago House by Emily Teeter 1:03:14

7M ago1:03:14

1:03:14

The Epigraphic Survey and Chicago HouseCelebrating Emily Teeters new book, Chicago on the Nile: 100 Years of the Epigraphic SurveyEmily Teeter, ISAC (Retired)In 1924, an Egyptologist, an artist, and a photographer—the staff of the University of Chicago’s new Epigraphic Survey—began the task of recording the scenes and inscriptions carved on the wal…

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Fireside Chats on Turtle Island, take 1 52:21

9M ago52:21

52:21

I did it, folks: I returned to the burning bouncy castle that is the small town settler entity on Turtle Island. In between fulfilling various karmic obligations and reconnecting with fellow settlers, relatives and friends on both sides of the Trump/Kamala cultic divide, I managed to do some real-life investigation of Indigenous reservations, visit…

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The Classic Postclassic Maya: Hunahpu and Xbalanque in the Popol Vuh (K’iche’, 1550s) 3:36:56

10M ago3:36:56

3:36:56

The first half of the Popol Vuh as we have it from the Kʾicheʾ colonial tradition is a quintessentially Kingless epic, as the story revolves around pre-human gods, successive generations of hero twins, who must defeat a series of aggrandizer figures, including the lords of death in the underworld, in order to bring about the dawning of the human ag…

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Episode S8 - Decumbo 35:17

11M ago35:17

35:17

Synopsis: Part 2 of a two-part Spotlight series on the rise and fall of the Roman Emperor Galerius: refugee, herdsman, soldier, Caesar, Augustus, Tetrarch, conqueror, schemer, would-be ruler of the (Dacian?) Empire, and persecutor of the Christians. A rollicking Third Century romp inspired by my current residence in his former tetrarchal capital of…

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Episode S7 - Ascendo 31:28

12M ago31:28

31:28

Synopsis: Part 1 of a two-part Spotlight series on the rise and fall of the Roman Emperor Galerius: refugee, herdsman, soldier, Caesar, Augustus, Tetrarch, conqueror, schemer, would-be ruler of the (Dacian?) Empire, and persecutor of the Christians. A rollicking Third Century romp inspired by my current residence in his former tetrarchal capital of…

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Asiatic Athena: karmic roots of Greek culture in Hittite class struggle (Song of Release, 15th c. BCE) [PREVIEW] 45:50

1y ago45:50

45:50

In a series that I hope will include Martin Bernal’s classic Black Athena (about the modern British fabrication of “ancient Greece” and its true roots in ancient Egypt), we start with the East: in recent decades, great advances in Hittite studies have illuminated much of the mechanics of transmission of Mesopotamian literature and religion to a nas…

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Consuming the Samurai Self (“The Playboy Dialect,” 1770, Japan) 2:02:21

1y ago2:02:21

2:02:21

A close reading of “The Playboy Dialect,” a classic sharebon, or narrative of fashion and manners in the pleasure quarters of Edo-period Japan, where a consumer culture, to rival anything concocted by the capitalist dictatorships of the Century of the Self, was wielded as a weapon of class struggle by the rising urban commoner class against the de …

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The origins of class society and revolutionary consciousness according to Second-Temple Judaism: 1 Enoch, Jubilees (Palestine, 3rd-2nd c. BCE) [PREVIEW] 1:12:41

1y ago1:12:41

1:12:41

The rise of ancient empires in the Eurasian continent ushered in the Axial Age, with its ideologies of absolute good and evil and the promise of revolutionary recompense for unheard-of oppression by the Occupiers of the Earth (שכני הארץ). The books of 1 Enoch and Jubilees, quoted by name in the New Testament, still contained in the Bible of the Eth…

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Return to Camões’ “Isle of Love” w/ Min 1:47:09

1+ y ago1:47:09

1:47:09

I thought I had a hot take in response to the Little Mermaid discourse last year, but predictably I’m not the first one to think of reading the Isle of Venus in Camões’ Lusiads against the Age of Exploration diary entries in which roving European savages discuss their adventures in more complex Indigenous kinship structures where sex was not commod…

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ParaPower Mapping the Six-Pointed Crusader State [PREVIEW] 12:53

1+ y ago12:53

12:53

The antisemitic, Nazi-adjacent ideology of Zionism says that members of the Jewish religion must be uprooted from their ancestral homelands and gathered into a white supremacist settler colony ruled by Jews native to Europe—a new kind of crusader state. And like the crusader states, at the behest of their Euro-American masters, the Zionist entity p…

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Ivan Morris, Weeb Superspy 8: a mushroom dinner, a falsified archive 1:27:00

1+ y ago1:27:00

1:27:00

In the final installment of the series, we cover all that is known about the mysterious death of this strangely GLADIO-brained scholar of classical Japanese literature and favorite translator of “aesthetic terrorist” Mishima Yukio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episode C30 - The Death of Kings 27:49

1+ y ago27:49

27:49

Synopsis: Faced with a series of disloyal vassals, Sargon conquers the remaining Neo-Hittite kingdoms and absorbs them into his empire. The Cimmerian invasion of Anatolia leads to the deaths of two powerful kings. In their absence, the preservation of peace and stability falls to local rulers such as Azatiwadas of Quwe. “I am Azatiwadas, the Sun Go…

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Ivan Morris, Weeb Superspy 7: The Shield Society of Notting Hill [PREVIEW] 20:46

1+ y ago20:46

20:46

We explore the Windsor Free Festival, Sunday Head, Albion Free State milieu of hedonist, individualist, libertarian (and decidedly anti-communist) radicalism in 1970s Britain, led by figures like Ubi Dwyer, Sid Rawle, and Paul Pawlowski, as well as scions of elite families like Heathcote Williams and Nic Albery—in light of the fact that, as we have…

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Episode C29 - City of the Raven 31:18

1+ y ago31:18

31:18

Synopsis: Rusa of Urartu wins early victories against Assyrian armies, but his intrigues in the Zagros kingdom of Mannea earn him Sargon’s wrath. After a crushing defeat by Cimmerian invaders, Rusa’s unable to prevent Sargon’s destruction of his kingdom. “I caused there to be lamentation in the wide land Urartu and in all the mountains, and I made …

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Ivan Morris, Weeb Superspy 6: Clockwork Albion 1:59:30

1+ y ago1:59:30

1:59:30

From the semi-autobiographical novel of Ivan’s second Japanese wife, Nobuko Albery (née Uenishi), we have some very sardonic portraits of the Morrises and their upper-crust left-wing milieu in France, as well as a fascinating subplot involving a drug-trafficking, blue-blooded hippie cult leader character who seems a fusion of Mishima Yukio and Nic …

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Episode C28 - The Fall of Carchemish 38:02

1+ y ago38:02

38:02

Synopsis: After defeating Syrian rebels at Qarqar and extending his dominion to the borders of Egypt, Sargon II labors to defend Tabal from the advances of Midas of Phrygia. Letters to Midas from Pisiri of Carchemish give Sargon a pretext to depose the Country Lord and annex his kingdom to Assyria. “In my fifth regnal year, Pisiri of the city Carch…

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Ivan Morris, Weeb Superspy 5: Ogawa Ayako, ballet master of Cold War Japan [PREVIEW] 13:21

1+ y ago13:21

13:21

From 1956 through 1966, during which time he moved from London to Tokyo to New York, Ivan was married to the ballerina Ogawa Ayako, known in the society papers—by analogy with Jackie (Kennedy)—as Yakkie. In the realm of ballet, where other important Cold War battles were fought such as securing the defection of the Tatar dancer Rudolf Nureyev from …

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Ivan Morris, Weeb Superspy 4: beasts in human guise 1:13:24

1+ y ago1:13:24

1:13:24

We finish our run through Ivan’s parents’ adventures, including their support for Kenyan Mao Mao revolutionaries and participation in the American-sponsored “Kenyan airlift” that also produced Barack Obama Sr, supporting Greek, Turkish, and Mexican communists in their way, but for one reason or another being unable to stop their son Ivan from becom…

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Episode C27 - True King 27:53

1+ y ago27:53

27:53

Synopsis: Shalmaneser V succeeds his father to the thrones of Assyria and Babylonia, then deals with rebellions in Samaria and Tyre. But his reign is cut short by the violent coup of Sargon II. After losing his hold on Babylonia, Sargon marches west to confront a Syrian alliance under Yaubidi of Hamath. “With regard to the city Assur…Shalmaneser V,…

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Ivan Morris, Weeb Superspy 3: in the shadow of HUAC [PREVIEW] 16:02

1+ y ago16:02

16:02

We follow Ivan’s parents, the peripatetic idle rich leftist novelist/journalists Ira and Edita Morris, from their wartime career “writing” in Haiti on the eve of the coup that brought the progressive President Estimé to power, then making “democratic” anti-fascist propaganda for the American Office of War Information and the Voice of America while …

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Ivan Morris, Weeb Superspy 2: communists in cashmere 1:16:56

1+ y ago1:16:56

1:16:56

I remain haunted by the ghost of a weeb, a shitlib superspy who, after cutting his chops as a naval intelligence officer in U.S.-occupied Hiroshima and Tokyo, wrote some of the first English-language scholarship of any depth on the Tale of Genji and the martial ballads, published geopolitical strategic analysis on how the Fourth Reich might best ru…

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Episode C26 - Damascus 31:17

1+ y ago31:17

31:17

Synopsis: Tiglath-pileser crushes rebellions in Patin and Luash and annexes their territories to Assyria. King Rasyan of Aram-Damascus forms a coalition of southern kingdoms - including Israel, Edom, Phoenicia and Philistia - to challenge Assyrian dominance, but betrayal by allies and the brutal tenacity of Tiglath-pileser lead to his kingdom’s dow…

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Episode C25 - Arpad 27:52

1+ y ago27:52

27:52

Synopsis: Matti’el of Arpad turns his back on the Treaty of Katikka and allies with Sarduri II of Urartu. The usurpation of Tiglath-pileser III heralds an Assyrian resurgence and the kingdom of Arpad’s destruction. “Matti’el the son of Attar-shumki (II) fomented a rebellion against Assyria and violated his loyalty oath. To the kings of Hatti and Ur…

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The Last Crusade (inshAllah) [PREVIEW] 11:47

1+ y ago11:47

11:47

A chatty episode to break the hiatus. I discuss recent news of the new final solution being demoed by the Zionist entity in Gaza. These days I’m walking around with posture like a ballerina because I’ve been de-settlerising and un-domesticating my leg muscles by running in huaraches and doing squats. We take a look at the First Crusade as seen in A…

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Update and Patreon Offer 2:16

1+ y ago2:16

2:16

First off I wanted to let everyone know that I am deep into researching and writing the upcoming season of “The Ancient World – Carchemish.” It’s got lots of fun stuff: Tiglath-pileser III, Sargon II and - most importantly - the final demise of the Neo-Hittite and Aramean kingdoms. Just a really interesting period and I’m looking forward to sharing…

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Doraemon’s Protocols of the Elders of Zion 1:30:58

2y ago1:30:58

1:30:58

Family movie day with the Schmudlachs in Tokyo usually results in a special episode of the Kingless Generation, as I dissect the petit bourgeois propaganda to which I’ve been subjected in an (arguably) more constructive forum than ranting to my kids—but this latest Doraemon film outdid even last year’s Ukraine War puff piece, and I had to call on P…

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