Animism is Normative Consciousness
The Emerald
The Journey to the Spring
To see a world become increasingly reliant on holy contraptions, to see the thing itself become less important than the idea or essence of the thing. To watch stories go from living, vocalized entities to abstractions carved in stone. It goes something like this: You start out living ly immersed in nature, utterly dependent upon your local spring for your survival. And that spring is dear to you and it's where you walk with empty clay vessels every day to get water. The rocks around the spring grow with ivy and laurels. This is your medicine chest.
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