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If your creativity has been feeling a little blocked lately… it might be time to let the goddess Baubo have a word—and a laugh.

I love learning from all my guests, but this one? So fun, so wise, and so liberating.

What if your vulva knows your truth?
What would that truth sound like? What would it look like?
That’s exactly what my next guest asked me.

Maria Souza—Comparative Mythologist, poet, educator, and founder of Women and Mythology—joins the Female Frequency Podcast to show how myths are more than stories. They’re maps and mirrors, guiding us back to the wild, wise, intuitive body.

In this episode, Maria brings to life Baubo—a nearly-erased goddess of laughter, healing, and holy body-truth. Through the myth of Baubo and Demeter, we dive into the sacred power of laughter as medicine, the symbolism of breasts as creative portals, and the deep body wisdom we’ve been conditioned to ignore.

If your boobs have ever stressed you out, this episode is absolutely for you.

Maria shares:

• The power of Baubo as a goddess of humor and embodied wisdom
• The emotional, creative, and alchemical symbolism of breasts
• Journal prompts: Why your vulva might be the wisest voice in the room—ask it!
• How myths can unlock your creative flow and reconnect you with your body’s truth

Follow Maria on Instagram at @womenandmythology—hands down one of my favorite mythic spaces on the gram.

Go deeper with your creativity at https://www.womenandmythology.com/

And don’t miss her podcast, Women and Mythology, part of the Joseph Campbell Foundation’s MythMaker℠ Network: https://www.womenandmythology.com/podcast

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Here is a list of where you can see the excavated Baubo icons in museum collections: 

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art: They have a Ptolemaic or Roman Period figure that was once labeled as Baubo, but has now been identified as Omphale, a figure associated with womb and childbirth. 
• Brooklyn Museum: They have a translucent green glass figure of a seated woman with her legs drawn up and outwards, often identified as Baubo. 
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: They have a Blue glass figure of a squatting woman with a suspension ring, also identified as Baubo. 
• Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest: They have both a terracotta and a Baubo figure in their collection. 
• Freud Museum London: They have a figure of Baubo in their collection. 
• British Museum: They have a limestone figure of a woman during childbirth, which is also known as a Baubo figure. 
• Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal: They have a Baubo. 

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