Ancient Curiosities
I visited the Peabody Museum this past weekend. That's the name of Yale's natural history museum. I saw strange things including live giant elephant shrews which was a first for me in a natural history museum. Most of the time, you just get dead things.
Looking through the different places, I saw some fabulous skeletons of the
and the
, and it made me think about some older spiritual beliefs. I can barely express the awe I felt at seeing just the skeleton of such a creature. If I were to see a live Irish Elk plodding around the forest, I think I'd truly feel rather small in a way that would provide a very clear perspective of my place in the world. It makes me think of the Deer God from Princess Mononoke. It's a wondrously strange thing, I suppose. To live with such creatures, deified later by certain cultures, was to live among the gods, I'd imagine. In ways, I can't find their worship utterly strange. Heaven knows some creatures can truly evoke feelings of the sublime.
Did Nietzsche kill God? Perhaps not quite. I guess mankind has definitely killed some of its gods by now. Wonder how many will survive for the future.
Looking through the different places, I saw some fabulous skeletons of the
and the
, and it made me think about some older spiritual beliefs. I can barely express the awe I felt at seeing just the skeleton of such a creature. If I were to see a live Irish Elk plodding around the forest, I think I'd truly feel rather small in a way that would provide a very clear perspective of my place in the world. It makes me think of the Deer God from Princess Mononoke. It's a wondrously strange thing, I suppose. To live with such creatures, deified later by certain cultures, was to live among the gods, I'd imagine. In ways, I can't find their worship utterly strange. Heaven knows some creatures can truly evoke feelings of the sublime.
Did Nietzsche kill God? Perhaps not quite. I guess mankind has definitely killed some of its gods by now. Wonder how many will survive for the future.