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The Storm God and the Ostrich Legs
Madad Richie's dissertation was to say that most people in the ancient world would have not read the versions of the story that I'm going to tell you about. They would have heard the story and seen pictures, but more they would just know it by seeing it everywhere. So here's the basic storyline of how it goes. There is a sea monster. But what that sea monster does is it lives in the sea and sometimes is just embodied as the sea. And it threatens the stability and order of all life on the dry land. Not hard to imagine. Well, if you're able to go to a coastal region that's not just like gold white sand beaches or something like that.