Mythic Mind GamesEpisode 7 Legend of Zelda: Mythopoeia, Tolkien, and the Triforce (Mythic Mind Games, ep. 7) Dr. Andrew Snyder in conversation with Dr. Anthony Cirilla and Joshua Traylor 11 July 2025 Watch on YouTube In this episode The Legend of Zelda can feel like playing Tolkien: home, adventure, and
Mythic MindEpisode 99 Out of the Silent Planet: Cosmic Hierarchy and Human Bentness (Mythic Mind, ep. 99) Dr. Andrew Snyder 7 July 2025 Watch on YouTube In this episode Ransom is kidnapped into the heavens and discovers that Earth is the silent planet: bent, cut off, and haunted by a
Mythic Mind GamesEpisode 6 Legend of Zelda: Triforce Virtues and the Cyclical Hero (Mythic Mind Games, ep. 6) Dr. Andrew Snyder in conversation with Josh Traylor and David Rutledge 5 July 2025 Watch on YouTube In this episode The Legend of Zelda keeps returning because it works like a modern
Mythic Mind MoviesEpisode 3 Return of the Jedi: Luke Rescues his Father from the Underworld (Mythic Mind Movies, ep. 3) Dr. Andrew Snyder in conversation with Ian, Reverend David, Lady David, and Daylon 3 July 2025 Watch on YouTube In this episode Return of the Jedi completes the original trilogy’
Mythic Mind Tolkien’s Mad Hobby that Spawned Middle-earth (Mythic Mind) Dr. Andrew Snyder 1 July 2025 Watch on YouTube In this episode In this freebie episode, I discuss a 1916 letter to Edith Bratt in which Tolkien mentions his “mad hobby” that would one day lead to the
Mythic MindEpisode 98 Augustine’s Confessions 5-6: From Carthage Toward Conversion (Mythic Mind, ep. 98) Dr. Andrew Snyder in conversation with Chase and Kyle 30 June 2025 Watch on YouTube In this episode Books 5 and 6 move Augustine from Carthage toward Milan: rhetoric as career, Manichaean disappointment, Ambrose
Mythic Mind GamesEpisode 5 Red Dead Redemption 2: Honor, Loyalty & Arthur’s Redemption (Mythic Mind Games, ep. 5) Dr. Andrew Snyder in conversation with Master Samwise and Jeremy Kee 27 June 2025 Watch on YouTube In this episode Red Dead Redemption 2 is a story about honor and redemption
Mythic MindEpisode 97 Introduction to Out of the Silent Planet: The First Cosmic Voyage (Mythic Mind, ep. 97) Dr. Andrew Snyder 24 June 2025 Watch on YouTube In this episode The door into Lewis’s so-called Space Trilogy: why Out of the Silent Planet begins the Ransom series, what
Mythic Mind MoviesEpisode 2 The Empire Strikes Back: Luke’s Underworld Descent (Mythic Mind Movies, ep. 2) Dr. Andrew Snyder and guests 20 June 2025 Watch on YouTube In this episode The Empire Strikes Back is where Star Wars stops being only a victory story and becomes a descent: Luke’
Mythic Mind GamesEpisode 4 Red Dead Redemption 2: Arthur Morgan, Ivan Ilyich & Memento Mori (Mythic Mind Games, ep. 4) Dr. Andrew Snyder 13 June 2025 Watch on YouTube In this episode Red Dead Redemption 2’s Arthur Morgan and Tolstoy’s Ivan Ilyich both teach memento mori: facing death
Mythic MindEpisode 95 Star Wars: A New Hope as Myth and Modern Fairy Tale (Mythic Mind, ep. 95) Dr. Andrew Snyder in conversation with Ian and David 10 June 2025 Watch on YouTube In this episode Episode IV draws on fairy tale: farm boy, empire, mentors, and a Force that
Mythic Mind GamesEpisode 3 SWTOR: Jedi, Sith, and the Moral Nature of MMO Gameplay (Mythic Mind Games, ep. 3) Dr. Andrew Snyder in conversation with Ian Miller 6 June 2025 Watch on YouTube In this episode Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) closes the Old Republic mini-series: eight fully