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235. Neil Gaiman (Jason Plays Favorites #7) – and then it gets darker

Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

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Odin and the World Tree

Odin's sacrifice to himself on Yggdrasil is "one of the most eerie and bizarre things I've ever seen" The stories that we get were written down a couple of hundred years after Iceland became a Christian country. You're never sure when you're dealing with parallel evolution, he says.

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