@xahteiwi
Stealing Benefacio's Roses by Martin Prechtel.
"An enchanting little memoir by a horse-owner turned anthropologist."
Not actually an entirely accurate description, it is easier to believe than a more illuminating description.
I mean, who'd credit, "An anti-nihilistic blended-and-cross-cultural Hunter-S.-Thompson-escapes-right-wing-Latin-American-death-squads, with an escapade into the underworld"?
Nobody right?
So it's a little memoir.
#StealingBenefaciosRoses by #MartinPrechtel
"Gentlemen I want to introduce you to a man who is my friend and his name is #MartinPrechtel. I want to let you know he is the spookiest man in North America. He looks like one of you. But he's one of them."
- #RobertBly (introducing M.P. to a men's congress)
3/3
I wonder if #MartinPrechtel's writings are an accessible view of one till-recently fairly non-Modern culture?
It is not I think that the Greeks of Socrates' day were a lot like the highland #Mayan Tzutujil. Rather that those Greeks may have been as foreign to us as the Tzutujil.
The audio is faint. Headphones are probably needed.
@AbandonedAmerica #TheFloweringOfTheDead
Try reading some Guatemalian highland Mayan mythology as presented by #MartinPrechtel
Book below is one place to start.
https://floweringmountain.com/product/stealing-benefacios-roses/
Or start at DOI: 10.2307/2803473
Our current approach to the dead draws heavily from both #EarlyEuropeanChristianity and #Socrates. And AIUI was a reason that hemlock was ordered. See #SimonCritchley #TragedyTheGreeksAndUs https://youtu.be/_48xuThZty8
Grieving was huge in old EU. Heard of ancestor worship too?
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