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Birth of Tragedy #8: 22-25 (Conclusion)

The Nietzsche Podcast

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How the Miracle Is Condensed and Expanded

Nietzsche says myth is a concentrated image of the world that as a condensation of phenomena cannot dispense with miracles. The earliest sort of religious ideas were often in the forms of idols where you sort of concentrated the divine into a single physical object or into a single place. That's how he represents that sort of, I don't know, it's like the miracle is like the supernatural, the divine.

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