Podcast Benomtad

Open, friendly, philosophical discussions about folktales, society, culture, and wisdom.  

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Dec 23, 2025

1 hr 8 min

A fisherman employed by a Count that paid him well for how big his catches were suddenly stopped catching fish and was let go.  Sat out on water, weeping.  Mermaid came to him and said she was the one who gave him all the fish and then took them away, and that if he wanted more he’d have to give her something he didn’t know he had.  He agreed and caught a large load.
Went home and shocked his wife with the news– she told him she was with child.  They were saddened but said they’d make the boy be a man of the cloth, and comforted themselves with the catch, which the man brought to the Count and thereby became re-employed.  
When the boy, whom they named Lucas, was of age, he took the vows, but he could not perform his first sermon because he was promised to the Mermaid.  So he became a cooper (maker and repairer of casks and tubs) and went on the road with that.
One day he saw a bear, a fox, a falcon and an ant quarreling over how to divide a horse’s carcass.  Lucas gave the fore- and hindquarters to the bear, the back to the fox, the innards to the falcon and the head to the ant.  He walked away but the bear sent the fox after him to express their gratitude.  The animals gave him the power to change into any of their forms at will.  He burst out laughing and went on.
To test his power, when he came upon some partridges pecking at grain Lucas turned into a fox and got as many of the birds as he could carry.  He then went on and came to an inn, where he had the birds roasted.  After he went to sleep behind the stove.  Four men entered and started playing cards, and one amassed quite a small fortune.  Lucas became an ant, crawled over, transformed into a bear and overturned the table, scattering the money and frightening the cardplayers into fleeing.  
Lucas took his “catch” back on the road and came to a town with a black flag and people in mourning.  A king had three beautiful daughters and had decided to make the middle his heir, but the sisters looked so alike that people could not tell them apart.  Anyone who could choose the middle could marry her, but if he failed, he’d be executed.  Many had tried unsuccessfully, and that was why the town was in mourning.
Lucas decided to try his hand, and he espied in the castle, which was surrounded by a deep moat, a garden, and in it three beautiful girls.  He flew as a falcon into it and allowed one to capture him.  She put him into a golden cage in her room and went to sleep, and he emerged as a man in splendid clothing and took her hand.  He professed her love to her and she said she was the middle.  She tied a red silk ribbon around her finger to distinguish her from her sisters.
The next day, Lucas showed up at the castle to claim his bride.  The king and others mourned for this handsome lad to be the next victim of the executioner, who was getting ready off to the side.  But when the three daughters were presented, the middle stepped forward slightly and he saw the ribbon.  Everyone rejoiced at his pick and he was made heir and they lived together happily for years.
 
One day Lucas wanted to go off hunting, but his wife had a bad premonition and asked him not to go, but he insisted.  Carrying a deer he’d killed, he ignored his mother’s warning to stay away from water, and he was snatched below by a mermaid.  The wife heard the news and mourned him at the stream, and the mermaid came up and said not to worry, that he was happy.  She asked to see her husband and she was shown his face, offering her golden comb, and by giving away her ring, then her slipper, he was allowed to progressively emerge until he was in his wife’s hand, and can you imagine, he then turned into a falcon and escaped.
The mermaid disappeared and came back and blew blue sand into the face of the queen, who turned into a dragon.  The kingdom was again in trouble, and the king announced the need for help throughout the land.  A magician came and asked if the princess could endure the difficult cure.  Three ovens of progressive heat were procured, and she was put into each one, emerging first with soft skin, then split out of the skin, then naked as herself, each time cooled with water.  Lucas threw his cape on her and they lived happily ever after now that the mermaid no longer had claim to them.
 
00:00 Introduction to VonSchönwerth’s Newly Discovered Tales
03:04 Summoning of the Muse for Odysseus, Another Lost Man
04:49 Summary of Von Schonwerth’s “The Red Silk Ribbon”
11:05 The Mermaid’s Blackmail
15:36 Nature She Giveth and She Taketh Away
17:12 From Priest to Caskmaker, Lucas Struggles on the Mermaid’s Line 
21:01 Lucas and the Four Animals 
28:01 Interest in the Wisdom of the People
29:10 A Wily Man Searching for Higher Things
32:49 Getting in Touch with the Father
36:31 Ignoring the Feminine and Dragged Down to the Depths
42:07 The Princess and the Mermaid
46:11 End of the Story: The Prince Must Be Drowned
51:33 Complications and Cross Forms in Stories
57:57 Folktales and the Unknowns of Parenting
1:00:46 You Have to Offer Something Real in Life, Something Vital
1:05:29 The Warning of the Mermaid

Dec 23, 2025

1 hr 8 min

Dec 14, 2025

7 min

We talk of the danger of applying strict logic to every situation, without using discernment.  But we live in a world with a lot of mystery to our brains.  So you must have wisdom to best know how, when, and how much to apply logic.  Our conversation meanders to Lois Lowry’s “The Giver,” where there is a rigorous discipline around the use of words.  Ian opines that there is an overemphasis on belonging in this society, and he contrasts this with strong man fascism.  
(From a discussion on Howard Pyle’s Robin Hood: “Little John Lives with the Sheriff”)
 
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About our guest:
Ian Reclusado is currently off exploring the poetic wilds of psychology, neuroscience, and spirituality. 
He also offers guidance services for those interested in delving into their own inner wilderness.
You can find his weekly dispatches at www.thekindknife.com or follow him on Instagram: @ian_reclusado
 
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Dec 14, 2025

7 min

Dec 7, 2025

1 hr 31 min

The king appoints his handsomest soldier to be his bodyguard and sends him to a nobleman with a beautiful daughter.  He tells the daughter not to speak to any soldiers, but she and he grow intimate.  After there is a baby, the nobleman sends the bodyguard away for three feathers from the tail of a dragon who lives on a glass mountain.
 
On the way, he comes to a country where the king has lost a golden chain, and he is only allowed to leave when he promises to learn how to get it from the dragon.  The second year he does the same with a king with a barren fig tree, and the third with two men who cannot stop ferrying people across a river.
 
At the glass mountain, the dragon’s wife tells him to hide, that she is not supposed to talk to anyone, but she ends up getting the feathers from her sleeping husband after he comes home and finding out the information.  The soldier, on the way back, tells the ferrymen to declare, “I am free!” after their last trip with him, and they are.  He then reveals the poison fruit buried under the fig tree, and in the sixth year of his journey, he tells the king where to dig to find the golden chain, and he is rewarded with an army.  
 
Upon returning, he sees the nobleman has been reduced to selling his dishes in the market.  He has his men smash the dishes, then again the next day when the nobleman still does not recognize him.  The father then recognizes his son-in-law, who is now allowed to marry his daughter, he himself is restored to the court, and they live happily ever after.
 
00:00 Podcast Intro
00:37 Summary of Von Schonwerth’s “The King’s Bodyguard”
06:26 A Drunken Storytelling  
09:05 The Highest Man 
11:32 A Very Intimate Relation, but It’s Not Enough
13:55 The Tyrant and Beauty
17:14 The Slick Feminine and the Glass Mountain
19:47 The Heroism and Beauty  of the King’s Bodyguard
24:26 The Nobleman, Hoarding His Daughter, Helps out Everyone
26:12 Beauty, Celebrity and Artifice
27:20 What’s with the Dragon on the Glass Mountain?
32:26 Make Yourself Small in the House of God
36:46 Not Knowing Your Task Until You Set Out
40:55 Proper Fear of the Lord
45:28 Judas and The Circuitous Rightness of Relations
51:27 Bad Leads to Good in Right Stories
54:33 Don’t Bring God Bad Vibes
56:16 Breaking Hoarded Plates and Daughters
1:01:10 The Bodyguard’s Useful Respect and Dutifulness
1:04:39 The Hurdle Philosophy and Aggressive Moral Emotions
1:10:24 Let People Have Their Suffering
1:15:27 Buddha, is There a God?  
1:22:59 Uncertainty
1:24:11 Plausibility, not Certainty
1:29:16 Not Everything is a Problem
 
(A Clip from the episode “Von Schönwerth’s “The King’s Bodyguard”)
 
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About our guest:
Ian Reclusado is currently off exploring the poetic wilds of psychology, neuroscience, and spirituality. 
He also offers guidance services for those interested in delving into their own inner wilderness.
You can find his weekly dispatches at www.thekindknife.com or follow him on Instagram: @ian_reclusado
 
Background Photo by Alexandro Pasqualicchio on Unsplash
Statue Photo by MIGUEL BAIXAULI on Unsplash
 
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Photo Credits: Thiago Zanutigh on Unsplash
Jonathan Kemper on Unsplash

Dec 7, 2025

1 hr 31 min

Dec 4, 2025

2 min

The Princess’s Personal Agenda in “Knapsack, Hat & Horn”
 
I view this as a cautionary tale: be respectful of someone with great power.  This story also resembles the Von Schönwerth story “The Scorned Princess,” and I talk about that story.  
 
(From a discussion on the Brothers Grimm’s ”The Knapsack, the Hat, and the Horn”)
 
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Dec 4, 2025

2 min

Nov 28, 2025

1 hr 46 min

Ian and I discuss the Greek-Roman god Dionysus-Bacchus.  He reads an Orphic poem and then I gloss various stories put together into a narrative in Edith Hamilton’s Mythology.  This is a fascinating discussion of a god with opposing features: of gentleness, compassion, and persuasion, but also of wild revelry, frenzy, and terrible violence.  We discuss this divinity of the vine, of natural vitality cultivated on a structure, and of rebirth after dissolution, whose product leads to new “creativity” and destruction.  He is a god of death and rebirth, and hence, of transformation, and we talk about his spirit’s contribution to the transformation and rebirth of individuals in life and civilizations in their lives. 
 
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About our guest:
Ian Reclusado is currently off exploring the poetic wilds of psychology, neuroscience, and spirituality. 
He also offers guidance services for those interested in delving into their own inner wilderness.
You can find his weekly dispatches at www.thekindknife.com or follow him on Instagram: @ian_reclusado
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:12 The Meaning of BenOMTAD
01:01 Format of this Episode
01:25 Recalling the Oracle
02:46 Ian on the Orphic Hymn
04:05 Edith Hamilton’s “Mythology” on Dionysus
14:56 Thoughts on the Murder of Pentheus by the Maenids
18:05 A Possible Earlier Version of Dionysus
23:26 A Dionysian Lineage
26:45 Humanity Born from the Titans, in this Telling
28:20 Gold Leaf Possible Evidence for Dionysus’s Role in Creating Humanity
30:46 This Interesting Side Myth
32:25 Liking the Multiple Local Myths and Thinking of Renewal
34:51 We are an Ultra Social Species
36:04 Multiple Facets of Dionysus and Renewal
37:16 Dionysus’ Rebirth from Semele
39:03 Unwelcome Dionysus
40:17 A Bit on Nietzsche’s Dionysian vs Apollonian
42:53 Why Dionysus May Be the Patron of Theater
44:22 The Transformative Place of Theater in Greek Culture
50:58 How is Dionysus Transformative?
59:42 The Direct Metaphor of Grapes to the Character of Dionysus
01:05:14 Orpheus
01:14:30 Theme: If You Do Not Dissolve in the Transformative Process, You Will Be Destroyed
01:18:50 Balancing the Dionysian and Apollonian in Meditation
01:19:18 How Orpheus Lost His Faith
01:26:18 A Prophetic Warning for Our Civilization
01:28:29 This Balance is Also Our Challenge Every Day
01:37:32 If We Don’t Have Faith, It Could Come and We Won’t Even See It
01:41:25 My Own Story of Ignored Creativity
01:44:03 Our Intention with This Podcast

Nov 28, 2025

1 hr 46 min

Nov 25, 2025

5 min

If you’re mindful, you’re better able to connect to and serve others.  How does one get so?  Getting back to what naturally arises.  
 
(From a discussion on Von Schönwerth’s “Anna Mayala”)
 
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“The Turnip Princess:” https://a.co/d/2enoGJS
 
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Inset: Photo by Nik on Unsplash
 
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Nov 25, 2025

5 min

Nov 19, 2025

1 hr 30 min

The Sheriff, out hunting with the town notables, wishes John were with them.  The bugle calls, and back at the castle, John awakens.  He thinks of his compadres over in Sherwood– the green men, and sees how he’s grown fat in the six Fall and Winter months with the Sheriff.  He goes to the pantry and asks the Steward for some meat and bread, and the fat man, envious of John’s closeness to the Sheriff, says it’s too late for breakfast.  John stomps over to it and breaks into the larder and starts to partake, and knocks the guard out when he intervenes.
 
The cook, spit in hand, runs over at the commotion.  The Steward bribes him to stop John, and he draws his sword and the Steward flees.  John reasons with the cook– one of us might go to Heaven by the end of the day, how about doing so on a full belly?  They size each other up respectfully as they fill up on pie and sack.
 
Time to fight: they draw and withdraw to a large corridor, but after an hour no one has gotten the better of the other.  Leaning on their weapons, they reason that they’re the strongest of the lot of the place, and John tempts the cook with the promise of camaraderie with the Green Men, so they abscond with the Sheriff’s food and silver.
 
Back in Sherwood, the men are merry at John’s rejoining them.  But Robin Hood’s face is grave: the Sheriff has not done wrong and does not deserve this recompense.  John moves to rectify his error and goes out to the Sheriff, drawing him to the group with promise of a herd of jumpy game.  The Sheriff despondently drinks with Hood and is sent back to the town bigwigs with a big lumpy sack of silver.  And that is the tale of how Little John ended his tenure with the Sheriff of Nottingham.
 
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About our guest:
Ian Reclusado is currently off exploring the poetic wilds of psychology, neuroscience, and spirituality. 
He also offers guidance services for those interested in delving into their own inner wilderness.
You can find his weekly dispatches at www.thekindknife.com or follow him on Instagram: @ian_reclusado
 
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Nov 19, 2025

1 hr 30 min

Nov 17, 2025

1 hr 51 min

Ian and I discuss McLuhan’s difficult Playboy interview where he answers questions about his philosophy of technology.  At the core of our concern is how to live well, connected to people and ourselves as embodied beings, as information technology advances.  Perhaps appropriate to the topic, we do struggle some to get ahold of his philosophy and how to go forward with this concern.  
 
McLuhan’s 1969 Playboy Interview:
https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/spring07/mcluhan.pdf
 
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About our guest:
Ian Reclusado is currently off exploring the poetic wilds of psychology, neuroscience, and spirituality. 
He also offers guidance services for those interested in delving into their own inner wilderness.
You can find his weekly dispatches at www.thekindknife.com or follow him on Instagram: @ian_reclusado
 
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Nov 17, 2025

1 hr 51 min

Nov 16, 2025

2 min

an: Rousseau seems to have an inherent faith in nature, in its goodness.  If you believe in that, you have something to aim for, to return to that.  I: Rousseau also says that most virtues are negative.
 
(From our discussion “Rousseau, Happiness, & Modernity”)
 
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About our guest:
Ian Reclusado is currently off exploring the poetic wilds of psychology, neuroscience, and spirituality. 
He also offers guidance services for those interested in delving into their own inner wilderness.
You can find his weekly dispatches at www.thekindknife.com or follow him on Instagram: @ian_reclusado
 
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Nov 16, 2025

2 min

Nov 13, 2025

35 min

Three brothers, tired of poverty, go out into the world.  In the forest, they come to a hill of silver and the first brother decides to load his pockets and return home.  The second does so with a hill of gold, but the third goes further into a much-larger forest, one of unknown breadth.  There, starving, he climbs a tree to look around, wishes for food, and finds a knapsack that always provides a feast.
 
Going on, he finds a succession of coal-burners who live on potatoes.  He trades them the knapsack for each of the unused gifts they have, using one of those gifts– a squad of soldiers at his beck and call– to steal back his feast sack each time.  Returning home and unacknowledged in his shabbiness, he raises raises cain with his brothers and punishes them, drawing the attention of the neighborhood and then of the king, but beating all opposing forces back.  
 
He uses his superiority to negotiate with the king and demands his daughter’s hand in marriage.  She also rejects him because of his appearance, but she tries to guile him out of his gifts.  He is able to successfully counterattack each time and eventually destroys much of the kingdom, taking the life of the king and his daughter in the process.  He then ruled over the whole land.
 
We summarize and then discuss this tale of ambition, risk, luck, gifts and judging based on appearance.  
 
Grimm's "The Knapsack, the Hat, and the Horn"
 
Three brothers, tired of poverty, go out into the world.  In the forest, they come to a hill of silver and the first brother decides to load his pockets and return home.  The second does so with a hill of gold, but the third goes further into a much-larger forest, one of unknown breadth.  There, starving, he climbs a tree to look around, wishes for food, and finds a knapsack that always provides a feast.
 
Going on, he finds a succession of coal-burners who live on potatoes.  He trades them the knapsack for each of the unused gifts they have, using one of those gifts– a squad of soldiers at his beck and call– to steal back his feast sack each time.  Returning home and unacknowledged in his shabbiness, he raises raises cain with his brothers and punishes them, drawing the attention of the neighborhood and then of the king, but beating all opposing forces back.  
 
He uses his superiority to negotiate with the king and demands his daughter’s hand in marriage.  She also rejects him because of his appearance, but she tries to guile him out of his gifts.  He is able to successfully counterattack each time and eventually destroys much of the kingdom, taking the life of the king and his daughter in the process.  He then ruled over the whole land.
 
We summarize and then discuss this tale of ambition, risk, luck, gifts and judging based on appearance.  
(From a discussion on the Brothers Grimm’s ”The Knapsack, the Hat, and the Horn”)
 
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For the full video episode:
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Audio episode:
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For the related “Bearskin” video episode:
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For the related “The Scorned Princess” episodes:
https://benomtad.podbean.com/e/von-schonwerth-s-the-scorned-princess/
Or for the video: 
https://youtu.be/F6gC0Sk9qJQ?si=K5ADs6vN2GXCT9uX
 
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.
 

Nov 13, 2025

35 min

Becoming Human

I view having deep, open conversations as perhaps the primary way I explore my and others' humanity.  I am looking for self-transcendence, knowledge, depth and love though exploration of experience, stories (such as myths and folktales), and ideas.  I hope you enjoy these conversations for personal growth and happiness, and thank you for listening. 

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