Sublime
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Trickster is the mythic embodiment of ambiguity and ambivalence, doubleness and duplicity, contradiction and paradox.
Lewis Hyde • Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
Linking this text to his account of soteriology in Theo-Drama, we see that the bridge is neither fully Son nor Spirit, but some strange combination of both—a dead man and a fragile trickle of love from his wound.
Shelly Rambo • Spirit and Trauma: A Theology of Remaining
therefore a curious hybrid, half-animal and half-god.
William B. Irvine • A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
agnostic : unknowable.
agoraphobia : fear of unfamiliar situations in public.
agrarian : agre = acre, of the land.
Amalthea’s horn : a myth about abundance / having everything you desire. Zeus’s nurse fed goat milk to an infant, snapped off it’s horn, and promised that Zeus will have a pampered life.
amaranth : a fadeless flower.
Amaurote : Thomas Moore
This god was known as the Demiurge, from the ancient Greek dēmiourgos. This word, meaning “craftsman” or “producer”, was first used in a philosophical context in Plato’s Timaeus, written around 360 BCE.
