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Word: hephaestus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each of us." His notions are tantalizing but undeveloped, and in a particularly freewheeling last chapter, he admits that his "lines of thinking ... fly into many pieces. " Some of the pieces are nutshell comparisons that are certainly arcane if not goofy ("The military-industrial complex is Hera-Heracles-Hephaestus"). Miller contends that polytheism deepens human experience -and then equates Aphrodite with the Playmate of the Month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Invoking the Gods | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

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