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Chris Knowles | Post-Gnosis, The Rude Awokening, & The Siren’s Shepard Sacrifices

The Higherside Chats

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The Mermaid Symbolism Is Very Much Tied Up

In the olden days, people woule just sacrifice their children because thought they would gain a good harvest. And what we saw in the ancient world is like this breakdown of gender rolls and gender identities. i think that when you look it like the siren symbolism, that the siren in the ancient stories was like he beautiful song that caused the sailors to be dashed on the rocks, right? And i think that's the same thing. I mean, i think all this gee culture and escapism and animate particularly animae and manga, because everything is so fluid as a whole, but it's a siren song,  i really do believe that it isn't

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