198 - Finding the Giant Dog-Headed St. Christopher in the Bible
The Symbolic World
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The Transformation of the Edge of the World
In christian tradition, you are not allowed to marry within your family. You need to marry out so that the kingdom of god increases and kind of becomes bigger as it progresses. This whole imagery we see in the gospel of nicodemus, of christ going down into hades, and death and hades and the devil talking about how they've won. But then being surprised by christ coming in as a conqueror and basically taking on death. The idea of using death against death, this whole notion of the trick, which is also played on death, is superimportant.
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