The Blue Bottle Tree is an audio altar and apothecary rooted in Black, diasporic folklore with the intention of extending and honoring ancestral memory. We explore concepts, politics, symbolism, and more in each of the stories presented. While there is storytelling and folk tales, this podcast is for folks 18+! Enjoy!
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The Blue Bottle Tree is an audio altar and apothecary rooted in Black, diasporic folklore with the intention of extending and honoring ancestral memory. We explore concepts, politics, symbolism, and more in each of the stories presented. While there is storytelling and folk tales, this podcast is for folks 18+! Enjoy!
In this episode, Xolani re-tells a famous Anansi story “How Wisdom Came Into the World”! We then dive into the journey Wisdom has taken since the so-called Enlightenment period and ponder what it would take to reclaim ancestral wisdom in this day and age.
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STORY:
How Wisdom Came Into the World
SOURCES:
Morrison, T. (n.d.). The Site of Memory. In Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir (2nd ed., pp. 83–102). essay, William Zinsser.
Young, J. (2008). “Of Moses, Mules, and Men: Zora Neale Hurston and the Politics of Folk Art.” Obsidian, 9(1), 9–19. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44489273
The Blue Bottle Tree
The Blue Bottle Tree is an audio altar and apothecary rooted in Black, diasporic folklore with the intention of extending and honoring ancestral memory. We explore concepts, politics, symbolism, and more in each of the stories presented. While there is storytelling and folk tales, this podcast is for folks 18+! Enjoy!
