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136. Maps of Meaning 08: Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The King of the Gods Is the Thing That Confronts Chaos and Regenerates Order

Mardak is a whole new category of god, and every one of the gods knows it. He's got some very strange attributes - he can speak magic words. And so when mar speaks, the night sky transforms into the day sky  and vice versa. Its a massive discovery by the mesopotamians because it's the idea that it's the capacity for communicative speech as the primary deity should be at the top of the dominance hirarchy. It's one of the most remarkable discoveries of the ages....

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