The more they stay the same.
Reading works from past aeons (or in some cases from thousands of years ago), i can't say i noticed much of a change in how things are.
I mean, maybe if we had some memoirs of a high jaguar temple priest, where he would explain how awesome it is to cut open people so as to give that extra bit of power to the god Tezcatlipoca, needed for the latter to keep fighting the other space monsters, it would ring a bit differently. But as things stand, there doesn't appear to be much in the way of some frightful or alien (sentimentally) book. Nothing about Carcosa (apart from generally not well written short stories by Chambers), nothing on Dionysus actually making use of a mother unwittingly decapitating her own son (it was just revenge, and a general F U to mortals), no celebratory song about the bandits outside Attica which Theseus killed - well, the Megareans kept insisting that Skyron was falsely presented as a murderous bandit, but that isn't the same as supporting him as he was in the mythical circle).
At least this supports the idea (eg by Plato, and surely he wasn't the first to think of it) that humans are essentially moral, at least when juxtaposed with something fundamentally and bizarrely murderous (eg the jewish god
).
-Have you read any book which presents a strikingly different point of view, and not just some variation of the usual?
Reading works from past aeons (or in some cases from thousands of years ago), i can't say i noticed much of a change in how things are.
I mean, maybe if we had some memoirs of a high jaguar temple priest, where he would explain how awesome it is to cut open people so as to give that extra bit of power to the god Tezcatlipoca, needed for the latter to keep fighting the other space monsters, it would ring a bit differently. But as things stand, there doesn't appear to be much in the way of some frightful or alien (sentimentally) book. Nothing about Carcosa (apart from generally not well written short stories by Chambers), nothing on Dionysus actually making use of a mother unwittingly decapitating her own son (it was just revenge, and a general F U to mortals), no celebratory song about the bandits outside Attica which Theseus killed - well, the Megareans kept insisting that Skyron was falsely presented as a murderous bandit, but that isn't the same as supporting him as he was in the mythical circle).
At least this supports the idea (eg by Plato, and surely he wasn't the first to think of it) that humans are essentially moral, at least when juxtaposed with something fundamentally and bizarrely murderous (eg the jewish god
).-Have you read any book which presents a strikingly different point of view, and not just some variation of the usual?
