This is like Greek mythology and tragedy, where figures like the Medusa have been replaced by something just as wild and unknowable in the human flight of imagination, separated by over two millennia and several paradigm shifts. With all our science, all our reason, the ancient gods and demons persist, in new incarnations, now with technology and exploration beyond the Earth.
I’ll give you another, much kinder and gentler example: when Kellogg’s began hosting their own beauty pageant about a century ago, The Sweetheart Of The Corn, then drew or photographed her cradling the stalks and ears of corn in her arms, then put that image on the cereal boxes, Kellogg’s created - maybe by unwitting, lucky accident - a modern representation of a harvest goddess like Ceres.
This is like Greek mythology and tragedy, where figures like the Medusa have been replaced by something just as wild and unknowable in the human flight of imagination, separated by over two millennia and several paradigm shifts. With all our science, all our reason, the ancient gods and demons persist, in new incarnations, now with technology and exploration beyond the Earth.
I’ll give you another, much kinder and gentler example: when Kellogg’s began hosting their own beauty pageant about a century ago, The Sweetheart Of The Corn, then drew or photographed her cradling the stalks and ears of corn in her arms, then put that image on the cereal boxes, Kellogg’s created - maybe by unwitting, lucky accident - a modern representation of a harvest goddess like Ceres.