Endless day
Sep. 6th, 2012 11:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ikhet_sekhmetHornung again, re the fallout from the narrowly averted Destruction of Mankind:
"The sun retreats from the earth on the back of the celestial cow, and darkness reigns for the first time since creation; in their blindness, surviving human beings turn against one another, distancing themselves from the gods forever." (p 48)
I don't think I've seen that before, either - the idea that the golden age was a time of perpetual daylight. (The humans' panicked response reminds me of the Isaac Asimov story Nightfall!)
"The sun retreats from the earth on the back of the celestial cow, and darkness reigns for the first time since creation; in their blindness, surviving human beings turn against one another, distancing themselves from the gods forever." (p 48)
I don't think I've seen that before, either - the idea that the golden age was a time of perpetual daylight. (The humans' panicked response reminds me of the Isaac Asimov story Nightfall!)
