Origin Stories and Being Thrown

May 07, 2020

∙ Paid

Humans are storytelling creatures, and some stories have been with us for as long as we've been human. Among these are, fittingly, stories of our own origins. It's futile to try to pin down when such and such story originated—and what's more, it's mostly missing the point.

17th century RajasthanI manuscript of the Mahabharata depicting Vyasa narrating the Mahabharata to Ganesha, who serves as the scribe — Detail, 17th century Rajasthani manuscript of Ganesha recording the Mahabharata (W…

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