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Native American (possibly) apocalyptic prophecy about inanimate objects coming to life
You may be referring to a legend in the Huarochirí Manuscript mentioned in this book: Colonial Spanish America. Animate objects in this text are linked to a beginning-of-the-world event, the first ...
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Which culture believed in a bird whose flight sustains the universe?
Just to provide a full answer:
According to your own finding. It is a political essay in Sam Kriss blog, titled from White skin, black squares (2020).
It refers to Turkic-Mongol chief deity Tengri, ...
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Which culture believed in a bird whose flight sustains the universe?
Found the essay! Somehow my memory embellished it. The original quote:
Imagine a devoted cultist of Tengrism, who sometimes gets invited by
company bosses to harangue the workforce on how the ...
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