Essay VI: The Return to the Beginning
On sacral regression, the recruitment of myth, and why collapsing authority reaches for the sacred
Kostia Dmytriiev
Former physician from Ukraine, now rebuilding a life in Canada. I write fiction, folklore, Ukrainian literature, and imagined worlds, and create a welcoming space where writers, artists, readers, and their stories can find one another.
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