Question:
An author interview with a good perspective?
I recently read an author interview in which the author was asked why she decided to portray the coming of Christianity to the Viking world. The book, by the way, is a historical fiction. I thought it very interesting what she had to say....
"All cultures pay a heavy price for the loss of any perspective, a different way to interpret the world and the lives of all its creatures. Like taking a single color out of the myriad shades of the spectrum, we suffer from a kind of blindness, a narrowing of scope. "
One of her main characters had this to say, the last line, incidentally of the book "It matters not - not what they are named, so long as they are called."
What do you think about it? Does it make you feel saddened that so much heritage is lost?
Additional Details5 months ago
T D good point...the line was a seeress speaking of Gods....
5 months ago
Soul..little did I need a lesson in "truth"...thanks for answering though
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I can't judge the meaning of the last line out of context, though I guess it has something to do with ne-naming after baptism.
It is sad when heritage is lost, but our attitude to heritage is probably more reverential now than at any other time. For instance, many old buldings are protected by law from alteration, and languages and dialects are recorded for posterity.
I'd also add that just as we lose things, so new things are created.
No culture can be static, all cultures must chage to survive and an element of change iis destruction.
Perhaps you would enjoy reading K. Clark's "Civilisation" (also a tv series)?