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Human beings have always been mythmakers. So begins best-selling writer Karen Armstrong's concise yet compelling investigation into myth: what it is, how it has evolved, and why we still so desperately need it. She takes us from the Paleolithic period and the myths of the hunters right up to the Great Western Transformation of the last five hundred years and the discrediting of myth by science. The history of myth is the history of humanity, our stories and beliefs, our curiosity and attempts to understand the world, which link us to our ancestors and each other. Heralding a major series of retellings of international myths by authors from around the world, Armstrong's characteristically insightful and eloquent book serves as a brilliant and thought-provoking introduction to myth in the broadest senseand explains why if we dismiss it, we do so at our peril.时空守卫者前传之不为天下只为民
善与恶,正与邪。是与非,光与影。本就双生,虽互斥互憎,却又无法分离。亦如天秤的两端,此消则彼长,此弱则彼强。她,游走与天秤的之上,亦善亦恶,亦正亦邪。亦是亦非,亦光亦影。对善者,她是神。对恶者,她却是魔。只是,这一切,又有谁能懂?千里黄河万里沙,孤叶一片落谁家。不为天下不为民,断情弃爱只为他。这个“他”,又真的只是他吗?而她口口声声说的:“不为天下不为民”,可最终,却还是为天下万民牺牲了所有……