I love this series. It makes clear what so many other tellings of these stories does not. Firstly, you get the connective tissue between most of the stories, meaning they mostly work as one big explanatory myth - not just of creation but many other aspects of life. Plus, you get the key characters' backstories and motivations. Be warned: one hell of a lot of those motivations turn out to be sex, meaning that, while not in any way depicted salaciously or pornographically, a lot of this might be a bit much for, say, under-10s.
My personal reaction: pending further learning, all this means this is now my favourite cosmology, presenting us with the uncomfortable notion that a terrible madness composed of lust and vanity maybe at the heart of and inseparable from the life force. No wonder the Greeks gave us the conjoined opposites tragedy and comedy.
My personal reaction: pending further learning, all this means this is now my favourite cosmology, presenting us with the uncomfortable notion that a terrible madness composed of lust and vanity maybe at the heart of and inseparable from the life force. No wonder the Greeks gave us the conjoined opposites tragedy and comedy.