This is Jonathan Peugeot back on the channel.

My last video with Jonathan was one of the most viewed long-form videos on this channel.

So I know people got a lot out of it and I definitely did as well.

So welcome back.

It's great to see you again, SEPFER.

I'm always great to talk to you.

You too.

So I want to talk today about a lot of things, really.

But I'm going to start by returning to this theme of universal history,

which you've produced a huge amount of content on.

And I want to connect that a little bit to your recent work on Snow White.

And so let me just ask you this question.

What is the connection between the universal history of real, quote unquote, nations, Ethiopia, America, Israel, and unreal or fictional narratives?

How do those two things intersect? And what does that mean for the significance of symbolism and universal history?

Well, what happens, I think, the way to understand is that what happens with universal

history in some ways is that the way that things are remembered at the origin, especially

at the origin of something, they tend to have a certain form.

They tend to contract in certain directions, towards something we could

call mythological storytelling, which is that the tropes become more and more condensed. And,

you know, you find things that we don't usually find in everyday life when you look, especially

the further you go back into the past. So if you look at early chronicles, it's always like giants and dragons and, you know,

hybrid kings and all of this stuff that seems a little crazy to us.

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