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TGhe Horns of War

Posted on 23/09/2024 by Daniel

On April 16th 1939 one of the preserved battle horns of Tutankhamun was broadcast being blown on BBC radio. The story goes there were three such horns, made of wood, silver and gold and when they opened the tomb Carter was so thrilled to see everything he just picked up the wooden one and blew it and it fell to pieces. But the sound in 1939 ushered in war with the Nazi Party and so people immediately linked the two in some ethereal manner.

It makes me wonder how people get to thinking these things and what synaptic connections make people go immediately to the magical and mystical. Is it something to do with all the childhood fairytales, a wish that the world was magical in some way and we could conjure events? Or does it harken back to the pre-scientific discoveries  when we were wholly powerful because of our deep ignorance, in making any sense of the world at all?

Superstition is, when all is said-and-done, a result of ignorance.

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