Microkhan by Brendan I. Koerner

Entries Tagged as 'lighting'

Dodging Zeus

July 5th, 2011 · 2 Comments

Virtually every ancient mythological system included a deity who was fond of hurling lightning bolts at unfortunate humans. Concocting the notion of such violence-from-above certainly took little imagination on the folklorists’ parts, since lightning fatalities were commonplace in bygone times. In fact, as the chart above shows, it is not until quite recently that the […]

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