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Jiang reads the Nephilim passage as the Bible turning polytheistic heroes such as Hercules, Achilles, and Theseus into offspring of old gods under a monotheistic frame.
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Heroes
A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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"...daughters of humans who bore children to them. These were the heroes that were of old, warriors of renown. Okay? This is really important..."
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"They're Hercules. They're Achilles. They're Theseus. They're all heroes from different mythologies. Where do they come from? They come from the mating of angels...."
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"...act of civil disobedience we still celebrate a lot with saints heroes whoever we call them right who die chooses to"
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"...in the span of months it went from we are the heroes saving the world of protecting it from communism and the evils of..."
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"...of knowledge, whereby Adam and Eve and sin all become joint heroes of the fable, that is Blake's reading and a powerful intuition, but..."
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"...Disney movies, right? These war movies that make Americans look like heroes and like people watch it and they think they're being entertained. They..."
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"...Imperial Marshal, and very appropriately so. For who should be military heroes if not those who worship the Lord of Hosts. And is Solut..."
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"...trusting in the gods who fight for us and in the heroes whose temples and images he holding them in no reverence has burned."
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"...the fall of the Mycenaean Empire. Two of the most famous heroes of this time, and there were like hundreds, okay, are Achilles and..."
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"...is that each region has local legends. Okay? And these local heroes are celebrated through stories. So, stories of demagogues like Hercules, right? And..."
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"...area these stories themselves become consolidated. So, Gilgamesh was basically different heroes. One king comes to dominate a region. Then what happens afterwards is..."
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"...and you would think that they would come back, and they're heroes, right? Imagine if the school took you all on a trip to..."
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