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How Water Shaped Humanity with Giulio Boccaletti

Factually! with Adam Conover

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The Origin of the Incans

Almost all societies have at their origin some myth that sounds like the story of napestim or therno. So this idea that in those early societies had to wrestle with water, and that struggle is captured in their myths of origin. It suggests that water is really central to identity and to everything that comes after well.

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