What looks like a modern insight into man and the world is the same old story that’s been around for thousands of years, played by the same characters, except it’s repeatedly cast in a different form. Anyone who knows the myths sees them recur in infinite guises: heroes and cowards, masters and servants, gods and fallen angels; betrayal, cruel death, and resurrection; fragmentation and restoration of unity; the doppelgänger; the mischief and machinations of cheats and tricksters; condemnation, punishment, and redemption of the sinner; forbidden love between a man and woman of enemy tribes; the
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