BUT, IT'S A DRY HEAT! TELL THAT TO THE FROST GIANTS!

摘要

In the ancient Germanic/Norse myths, some of the great enemies of the AEsir and Vanir (collectively the Norse gods) were the Jotunn or Jotun (the Giants). The Norse gods, according to the ancient stories, had complex relationships with the Jotunn, but fundamentally in the end times they were the enemies of the gods: Fire Giants and Frost Giants. This relationship reflects a key existential theme: How will I die? How will our civilization end? How will the world end? Many cultures fear destruction by fire, and some destruction by ice. For my generation, we feared death in both directions: in the short term by catastrophic destruction in nuclear fire or in the long term by return of the Ice Ages.