This week on MYTH, we’re going to head in about as opposite a tone as possible from sunny, pleasant Hawaii and instead, head to rainy, dreary New England for the Halloween special.  In this episode, you’ll learn that racism doesn’t age well, that sometimes looks CAN kill, and that pirates are never to be trusted.  Then, in Gods and Monsters, it’s the evil shapeshifting pharaoh you might have met without realizing it.  This is the story of the dead god Cthulhu, center of the H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.

Aloha!  This week on MYTH, I’m headed to sunny Hawaii for vacation in honor of one year of podcasting, so I figured it would be the perfect time to do another episode on the trickster god, Maui.  In this episode, you’ll see that little kids shouldn’t be in charge of naming creation, that eels are creepy bastards, and that fish make great landscaping.  Then, in Gods and Monsters, it’s the evil spirit that will wreck your world for eating in the wrong place, unless you’re related.  This is the story of how Maui met his wife Hina, and how Hina gave her eel friend Tuna the "let's be friends" speech from Polynesian mythology.