Grave Legacy

Legacy Of The Angels

Rebekah Wallace | Aeon | 18th March 2025

Everything we understand about the cosmos can be traced back to angels. Medieval debates about bodiless celestial beings that were nonetheless located in time and space forced an update to Aristotelian notions of physics. In the thinking of Duns Scotus, Isaac Newton and others, an invisible force such as God's will could act on such a body. This laid the framework for modern physics (3,200 words)

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The Mana Of Digging A Grave

Liam Rātana | Spinoff | 24th July 2024

Arresting from the opening line: "It has been almost a decade since I was called on to help dig my first grave." Drafted in first at the age of 19 when an uncle died, the craft of gravedigging was quickly and simply communicated at 5am at the urupā, a Māori burial ground. Mark out your hole, remove the grass first — ideally in one piece — and then just keep shifting earth until you're six feet down (2,800 words)