Ev Cochrane: Anatomy of a Thunderbolt | Thunderbolts

Many leading scholars believe that Zeus’s thunderbolt was a mental construct and did not exist in the real world. Author Ken Dowden is representative of this belief: “There is no such thing as a thunderbolt because lightning is not an object that is thrown. . . “ Given such skepticism with regards to archetypal mythological motifs, it is hardly surprising to find that a survey of modern attempts to explain the thunderbolt’s iconography or behavior reveals a vast wasteland of wild guesses and discarded hypotheses. All the more appropriate for comparative mythologist Ev Cochrane to analyze and decipher what may be the actual anatomy of the mighty thunderbolt itself. -- If you see a CC with this video, it means that subtitles are available. To find out which ones, click on the Gear Icon in the lower right area of the video box and click on “subtitles” in the drop-down box. Then click on the subtitle that you would like. The Thunderbolts Project — a Voice for the Electric Universe