Ragnarök: the doom of the gods

This Norse saga of the gods destroying themselves is the perfect allegory for 21st-century environmental catastropheMyth comes from muthos in Greek, something said, as opposed to something done. We think of myths as stories, although, as Heather O'Donoghue says in her book From Asgard to Valhalla, there are myths that are not essentially narratives at all. We think of them loosely as tales that explain, or embody, the origins of our world. Karen Armstrong writes in A Short History of Myths that ...

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