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235. Neil Gaiman (Jason Plays Favorites #7) – and then it gets darker

Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

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The Roman Way of Doing Things

Odin, who seems like a wise in the sense of being incredibly smart, but relatively untrustworthy, God becomes the high God and is the most important God. And then you have sort of like Thor's incredible manliness on the one hand and kind of noble stupidity contrasted with Loki's sort of untrustworthy intelligence. Both as methods of getting things done. But I think it's fascinating for me, and this is just a sort of by the by, that when the Romans would go from place to place, what they tended to do was go, are, are gods? Are your gods? We just know them by different names. Most pantheons mapped onto other panthe

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