Mythology and religion publications
Awe Without Mystification
An old recording shows people running toward a collapsing building while every sensible reflex points the other way. Another scene holds on a hospital corridor, where someone waits with a parcel for a stranger. Then a familiar piece of music reaches the passage that has produced...
Gods Are Not Laboratory Notebooks
Apollo holds an awkward number of functions together. He is bright and distant. He gives oracles, orders music, heals, and at the beginning of the Iliad sends plague into the Achaean camp with his arrows. The epithet “Phoebus” means bright or radiant, while Delphic Apollo became...
From Humanity Drama to Space Sitcom
Some works do not merely tell a story. They attempt to place the whole human undertaking on a stage at once. Dante leads the reader through an afterlife organised as moral architecture. Goethe's Faust wants knowledge, experience, power and self-justification without knowing in ad...
