Anita Arnon
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Podcast Appearances
So it's a perspective thing.
So it's actually, it's made for purpose.
So that if you're an ant-like human, you'll see a... That's really interesting.
I never thought of that.
Willie used the word, apart from lapis lazuli, he used the word Darbar to describe that opening scene of, you know, this splendor and this wealth.
And we should explain that the Darbar is, Aidan, it's a show, isn't it?
It's a show of gifts.
It's a show of abasance, you know, that people are coming and they're bowing to the most powerful.
And it's when you put all your glitz and glamour on full display.
That's right, isn't it?
To bend the knee, as it were.
I mean, you know, this all has a utopian quality to it.
Now, is that possibly because this is such a personal revolution?
I mean, you know, it is obviously one man's vision.
But let me ask you the question that you're never going to be asked in your lectures.
Is it because Akhenaten had daddy issues?
Because why?
Why?
Do we understand why he suddenly woke up this morning and said, my father, my father's father, my father's father's father, and everyone else has got it all wrong.
But I know the true way.