Mythic Roots of the Metacrisis

Summary

Alexandra Toledo traces the polycrisis to a Babylonian creation myth in which the god Marduk murders the mother goddess Tiamat. It marks the moment “a fundamental dualism was born”, spirit against nature, and we keep living it because “this narrative is implicit and unconscious”. Her question: what if “the Earth and all of Creation were sacred?”

Rationale

Her ‘split from the sacred’ gives the separation we found an origin story. It shaped our thinking, though we’d hold any single root cause more lightly.