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5 min readMy Grandfather Worshiped A Strange God
A copper coin dropped from an old box in the attic, rolling across the floor until it stopped at the feet of the narrator's daughter. It was stamped with a crisscross symbol on both sides—unusual, unspendable, and clearly old. The box also contained a stack of papers: a memoir written by the narrator's grandfather, Timothy Horn, who had died in 2011. The narrator had never known the man worked on a whaling vessel. He only knew that his grandfather refused to go near the ocean, insisting that "the gods of old ruled the sea," and that he kept a small shrine to a god the narrator couldn't identify. The memoir explained why.
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- 1 My Grandfather Worshiped A Strange God — Timestamped Outline
- 2 (00:04) **Setup: Discovering the Grandfather's Secret** - The narrator finds a box of his late grandfather's belongings, including a strange copper coin with a crisscross symbol and a handwritten memoir about working on a whaling vessel
- 3 (01:44) **The Green Hand's First Day** - 17-year-old Timothy Horn lies about his age and joins Captain Ead's whaling crew in the north
- 4 (05:36) **The Mysterious Strangers** - Timothy drops his Norse coin, and two blue-eyed men pick it up — one older (Evan) and one younger (Mercury)
- 5 (09:13) **Hired Aboard** - The harbormaster refuses to let the ship sail with only five crew, so Evan and Mercury volunteer, claiming to be father and son
- 6 (11:42) **Life at Sea** - The crew sets sail on calm seas, and Mercury approaches Timothy to talk
- 7 (14:14) **The First Whale** - Timothy spots a whale, and the crew hunts it — but he is unprepared for the reality of killing
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Show Notes
He was strange. Written by: Kikito Lynn
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