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Myths: Mapping Our Way Home

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Myths: Mapping Our Way Home
Myths have always provided us a way to map the unknown. A detail from the Lenox Globe, the second or third oldest terrestrial globe, believed to be created in 1510. Public Domain
James Sale
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In this series, Myths: Mapping Our Way Home, James Sale revisits why myths—all but discounted today—remain crucial to understanding our place in the universe, if not to our very survival.
Since the Enlightenment, knowledge has been privileged over mythic forms of understanding reality. An engraving from the 1772 edition of the “Encyclopédie.” Truth, in the top center, is surrounded by light and unveiled by the figures to the right, Philosophy and Reason. (Public Domain)
Since the Enlightenment, knowledge has been privileged over mythic forms of understanding reality. An engraving from the 1772 edition of the “Encyclopédie.” Truth, in the top center, is surrounded by light and unveiled by the figures to the right, Philosophy and Reason. Public Domain
James Sale
James Sale
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James Sale has had over 50 books published, most recently, “Mapping Motivation for Top Performing Teams” (Routledge, 2021). He has been nominated for the 2022 poetry Pushcart Prize, and won first prize in The Society of Classical Poets 2017 annual competition, performing in New York in 2019. His most recent poetry collection is “StairWell.” For more information about the author, and about his Dante project, visit EnglishCantos.home.blog
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