Chapter 3: Caliban's Garden
December 6, 2024·29 comments·In Brief
Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices.
Caliban, from Tempest, Act III, Scene II by William Shakespeare
It is poetic, I think, that humanity’s oldest surviving stories are about how we became storytellers. When the Yahwist wrote of a man eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, he described him standing at the precipice of understanding the true nature of himself and the world. It is a creation story, of course, of the sort that exists across every human culture and of the sort that would have been told and retold long before we gained the capacity to write it down. Most humans see the patterns of creation stories because we have heard them so many times. Even more because our cultures are suffused with symbol-rich stories of how our world began. But mostly we see the patterns of creation stories because of a conscious mind that has evolved to seek them out.
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