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The Shape of Stories: How Myths Move Through Bodies and Worlds

The Emerald

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The Body, a Great Body, Is Torn Apart

The body dismembers and resolves itself into void. And what is torn apart needs to come together. All ritual enshrines these basic dynamics. The good bard, the good poet, understands this. As they sing of the tearing apart of the god's body, they are taking the listener on a journey of sparogmos,. Dismembering and remembering again. This would be the story of life of the breath. This wouldbe the story of journey and return.

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