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New Rituals for a New World


We think of myths as belonging to a distant past, but the far future can provide its own fertile ground for the world of myth. It is six thousand years into the future. DNA and electron sequencing from the realm of science combine with occult and other symbols in an imagined future in which these two worlds merge to become indistinguishable from each other. In this future as distant from our own as our time is from the very beginnings of civilization in Sumer, perhaps humans may themselves appear as creatures of myth: future Valkyries, harpies and sphinxes against which unknown heroes will pit themselves in planet-spanning dramas: new rituals for a new world which will have become unrecognizable to us.

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