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4 thoughts on “Merry Christmas sons of Siberia!

  1. Dear Razib,

    Merry Christmas! And thank you for all your work.

    Apropos the video, which I greatly enjoyed, thank you for it, you might be interested in E. J. Michael Witzel’s “The Origins of the World’s Mythologies,” (Oxford, 2012). He attempts to draw connections between African, Eurasian, and Amerindian myths going back tens of thousands of years. And there are many, many similarities. I don’t recall that he does the dog mythology, which is new to me, but he covers many others.

    Happy New Year!

    Yours,

    Bob

  2. Thanks for posting the video, and Merry Christmas. I was sufficiently intrigued to look up the referenced Godborn, Dan Davis’ retelling of the Herakles myth, and add it to my reading list. Perhaps this novel is akin to Bjorn Kurten’s Dance of the Tiger; informed (pre)historical fiction is one of life’s small pleasures.

    (Though I see that Kurten’s 1980 book now comes with a foreward by Steven Jay Gould… an association with E.O. Wilson would have been more welcome, in light of recent news.)

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