"And indeed, the burden of Cassandra's "gift" is evident in mythology. She predicted the outcome of many disastrous events. In one memorable example, Cassandra announced the dire consequences of the Trojans accepting the infamous Wooden Horse from their Greek opponents. But as Apollo made certain, no one believed Cassandra when she warned her companions about the future. And this, in the end, was to be Cassandra's tragic fate."
Nothing defines a culture so clearly as its religion. Every culture is organized around some transcendent sense of reality, some metaphysical order, some sense of the divine which it aspires to harmonize with.
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