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S2E12: History and myth always live together: a conversation with Wendy Doniger

Historychatter Podcast

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History and Mythology Go Hand in Hand

I don't think you can understand political history without understanding the stories that we people telling, what people were telling at that time. I mean, if you can even look at the chaos in america to day, when you see the crazy things that are happen, mythological stories about evil vaccinators. And contrariwise, people tell new stories because of things that have happened to them. Real events then get mythologized and real mythology. They are very powerful, these stories. They come again and again. Certain stories keep re emerging,. certain unscientifically based, but very mentally compelling, emotionally compelling stories. This has happened. This is what is happening. Right?

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