Paganistan: Notes from the Secret Commonwealth
In Which One Midwest Man-in-Black Confers, Converses & Otherwise Hob-Nobs with his Fellow Hob-Men (& -Women) Concerning the Sundry Ways of the Famed but Ill-Starred Tribe of Witches.
On the Mechanics of 'Idolatry'
This is a statue, not a river.
This is not the Mississippi. It is a statue of the Mississippi.
Yet, everyone will agree, in some mysterious way, this statue makes the Mississippi present.
The mechanics of just how this making-present occur are, to be sure, a matter of perennial debate among the wise. The question of agency is a particularly interesting one.
But that it actually happens, we can all agree.
Religion is a technology for making-present the sacred. The gods make themselves present in many different ways.
And for some of us, they do so through art.
Larkin Mead, Mississippi: Father of Waters (1904)
Minneapolis City Hall
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