The Importance of Name in Mythology

I always add like two or three more cloves than are called for. I appreciate that they speak to me through cutting open a whole head and being like, most of this should go in. Amanda speaking of names, oftentimes in mythology, referring to the gods by their true names meant that you were either evoking them or at the very least making yourself noticed by them. And it's something that we've talked about in our, it's all Greek to me episodes and it's Norse, of course.

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