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“Um one was a guy named James Frasier. He was an anthropologist who wrote a book, very influential book in 1890 called The Golden Bow. B U I'm sorry. Yeah, U. W. Jesus, what's going on with me? B O U G H. I'm going with bow. It's pronounced bo.”
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“well what's the connection here with Odus and wisdom because when he goes past the muses he puts the wax in his ears and that's one of the things that they entice him with In order for anus to do this he has to have the golden bow which becomes the the title of this this great mythological thing that's”
Discussed
“George Frasier, 'The Golden Bough' is nuts; it was first published in 1890 and it’s talking about a lot of the same things and it still holds up because Frasier was largely correct!”
Discussed
“And I love this because this feels like an allusion to the work of Joseph Campbell or Frasier's The Golden Bough, which are great reads if you're into folklore—seminal works.”