We intend to challenge the stories which underpin our civilisation: the myth of progress, the myth of human centrality, and the myth of our separation from ‘nature’.— Uncivilisation: The Dark Mountain Manifesto
Recommended by friend DB of splendid B&B Radnor House in Hay on Wye.
Mountains of the Mind by Robert Macfarlane, published 2003, about the history of the human fascination with mountains
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry: two young soldiers find intimacy amid the horrors of the American civil war
Sacred Hunger, historical novel by Barry Unsworth about the slave trade, 1992 Booker Prize (with Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient)
Epiphany/Twelfth Night yesterday reminds me how the 3 Magi myth is an overlay on the previous pagan myth about the 3 stars of Orion's Belt pointing towards Sirius (aka Star of Bethlehem) as it rises in the East at this time of year. For more see for example
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