Tag: mythology
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Waypoint 4.2—The Wombfish
Doris is a sea-goddess, a second-generation Titan who lived long before Zeus established his Olympian hierarchy. She’s no queen, but rather a natural node within a mythic network. She’s but a single, dew-bright strand within an interconnected web of life. She’s also the daughter of Oceanus, the world-circling river, and of Tethys, the fertile sea.…
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Waypoint 4.1—Of Roots, Rhizomes, and Fish with Feet: The Lurid Bait of Egotism
The purple mountain heather is a symbolic affront to the arrogance, the tyranny, the demagoguery that fancies itself the axis of the world. Had great Ozymandias been a botanist—had he studied the rhizome and grasped its implications—he would have been moved to feeble tears. Or else he’d have ordered every last one ripped from the…
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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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