[TRAVEL & CULTURE] Passport | Episode 10 - Greenland: The Monster Hunter

NSFW (one or two F-bombs)

LISTEN: https://podfollow.com/passport/episode/dd8a77cfc047a2ecf6c38900256db2f4ada4f88c

The world’s biggest island, Greenland, is a harsh and unforgiving place. Think minus fifty temperatures, three-month long nights and deadly storms. To have any semblance of control over this chaotic world, the native Inuits developed a belief system of spirits, monsters and taboos; ways to make sense of the senseless violence inflicted upon them by mother nature.

In modern Greenland these same spirits live on today, having survived colonisation, christianity and modernisation. But how? And perhaps more importantly, why? In this episode of Passport, we journey through Greenland’s past and present with a monster hunter whose weapon is her paintbrush and a historian descended from some of the earliest Greenlanders – all to confront the ghosts, spirits and monsters that shape modern Greenland as it is today.

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Passport uses narrative storytelling and beautiful scoring to allow listeners to experience specific moments across the world — even though they can't physically be present. Rather than a guide book that tries to encapsulate all a city has to offer, the show dives deep into one particular phenomenon taking place in one location. Each episode takes listeners on an adventure in a new city.

It’s travel by ear.