Human Nature Communion

myth:human_nature_communion

The broad communion: the fact that humans have always lived inside a world of other minds — animal, vegetable, spirit — and have always known it. Not dominion but kinship; not the nature-documentary gaze but the hunter's prayer, the farmer's calendar, the shaman's climb, the child who names the spider. One of the deepest and most persistent threads in the whole of human myth and story. — comparative myth