Aegis of Athena
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Aegis of Athena is a brief excavation of the Indo-European and Euro-American Spirit, globalization, mercantilism, nationalism and ancient mythoi using the Shield of Perseus. It reconciles myth and historicity with ancient and contemporary geopolitics, illuminating a tapestry of struggle and the secret knowledge of kings. Author Joshua M. Bigley exhumes and resurrects Theseus, the labyrinth of King Minos, the Minotaur, Hercules, the Hydra of Lerna, Perseus, the Golden Fleece, the Garden of Eden, Medusa and Andromeda. Enter the Temple of Athena, descend into the realm of shadows, and gaze into the Aegis of Athena – it reveals multitudes and will leave you petrified ... and decapitated.
Joshua M. Bigley
Joshua M. Bigley was born in the Finger Lakes Region of upstate New York on a farm with over 80 horses long in the tooth. He has an older brother and a younger sister. His father talked to cows and farmers on the radio, gave rides in a sleigh festooned with jingle bells, and poured cheap beer as the proprietor of a tavern named the Junction--where there's always a function. And then vanished. He rode west following the sun and turned up on a Navajo reservation cowboying and teaching earth science. Joshua's mother moved to Syracuse and married the Iceman, founder of Ice Systems of America. When he was still a child he discovered a time-machine in the wood-cellar/wine-cellar/bomb-shelter, crept through cretaceous jungles, and was bowled over by a charging pachycephalosaur, gored by a frenzying stygimoloch when he mistakenly wandered into its spawning grounds, feasted on the precious eggs of an archaeopteryx, ancestor to birds, and was nearly sacrificed by an Aztec priest-king millions of years later. Escaping through Time, in a malfunctioning time machine (but that's another story), he ended up on a dark planet, a wasteland resembling Earth with canceled skies under a black pall. At the end of a long basalt road half-buried in shifting sands and marked with ancient standing stones, Joshua encountered a dark tower and a stranger in black with hourglass eyes. He stopped traveling in time after that and only does it now, on rare occasions, when he's got time.He studied in Britain and lectured at the M.I.T of China.
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