[a website for the Editor and Narrator of the Circo del Herrero series]
“The priest is rarely seen and is never of importance. In the Odyssey when a priest and a poet fall on their knees before Odysseus, praying him to spare their lives, the hero kills the priest without a thought, but saves the poet. Homer says that he felt awe to slay a man who had been taught his divine art by the gods. Not the priest, but the poet, had influence with heaven — and no one was ever afraid of a poet.”
-Edith Hamilton, Mythology.
“There are also stories which point back clearly to a time when there was human sacrifice. But what is astonishing is not that bits of savage belief were left here and there. The strange thing is that they are so few.”
-Edith Hamilton, Mythology.
Stories which show a mad scientist father trying out his hypotheses on his little girl. …Because what guinea pig is better than your own spawn?
“Scientist” and “daughter” and “father” as definition is a bit loose here.
Any others that should be on this list?
