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The Mythmakers: Who Builds a Legend... and Why

The Mythmakers: Who Builds a Legend... and Why

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 Raven Thorne examines the invisible architects behind every legend—the biographers, rivals, devotees, and collective crowds who transform lives into myths. She explores how proximity distorts, how opposition strengthens, and how the attempts to destroy often immortalize. Through centuries of pattern-tracing, Raven reveals that legends are never solo acts but collaborations between the living and the dead, between fact and cultural hunger. She dissects the motives of those who shape legacies: love, profit, ideology, and the irresistible compulsion to make coherence from chaos. This episode illuminates the uncomfortable truth that the mythmakers are part of the legend itself, and we are all engaged in this ancient work of turning lives into stories that refuse to die.

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