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Conversations: Can You Smell the God In the Air?! Epiphanies in Antiquity w/ Gillian Glass

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

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Pars Pototo Epiphany

Cinderella's shoe is a pars prototo epiphany in some ways, right? Thi shinyn glass shoe that we know aludes to this unidentifiable being. In jewish worship, at the end of reading tora, when the torra is held up, there is a moment where members wrap the corners of their prayer shawl around their pinky finger and they point at the tora. They are visualizing their god through this object. That can be an army, can be an individual. It can be a crowd of worshippers. And so we know that the the interplay between god and human, or no religious efficient and religious participant, is facilitated

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