The podcast episodes provided explore various topics related to ancient beliefs, shedding light on how these beliefs influenced the way people perceived and interacted with the world around them.
For example, the episode "How do we know dreams aren't real?" discusses the historical belief that dreams were real spiritual events, while the episode "From the Vault: Mud, Part 1" examines ancient beliefs about the spontaneous generation of life and monsters from mud, as expressed in literary works like Edmund Spenser's 'The Faerie Queen'.
Similarly, the episode "S10E8 - Sea Monster Mash" explores the origins of mythological sea creatures in ancient Greek, Norse, and Scottish folklore, and the episode "From the Vault: The Moons of Uranus, Part 3" touches on ancient beliefs about the connections between celestial bodies, weather, and disease.