Tag: mythology
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Waypoint 2.4: The Soul, The Strongman, and The Second Sex
Venus was more than that — she was an institution. An aging one, whose will was carved, it seems, in stone tablets. And like all aging institutions that feel their power waning, she longed to reclaim old glory — to make herself great again.
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Waypoint 1.2: Trees of Forbidden Knowledge
With delight, we watched our scientifically-inclined boy turn into Vulcan’s evangelical— a pint-sized prophet of sulfur and smoke.
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Waypoint 1.3: The Trailhead
Ratatoskr, the trickster squirrel — a kind of mythic pundit — dashes between the world-tree’s top and bottom, stirring chaos.
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Waypoint 1.1: Vulcan’s Evangelist
Some of us pause to wonder what heated nightmare it was that moved the mad god-emperor Caligula to invite the moon into his own amorous bed.
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