160 - Richard Rohlin - A Universal History
The Symbolic World
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The Story of Troy Is a Full Half of the Master Story of Medieval Civilization, East and West
In Beowulf, he's a liminal figure because he shows up during an interregnum period that the Danes have. And so they see themselves as maybe born out of this monstrous, yeah, fourth child who was born on the arc. A lot of these, a lot of these founders, because they're intermediate, like they, they bridge to world. They are represented mythologically as half human, half snake. So then the other part of this is, I would say a full half of the master story of medieval civilization, east and west,.
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