It’s always great fun to hear about the various legends, gods and myths responsible for creating the rocks, landscapes and bodies of water one encounters while traveling through ancient lands and regions.
But, as Anthony Peregrine points out in The Telegraph, hearing such stories ad nauseam becomes rather nauseous itself.
Of Myth, Magic and Mayhem serves two purposes. It introduces the reader to the overbearing affect of too many local legends ruining a vacation, while also tantalizing us about a new exhibit at the British Museum which focuses on these very same legends.
“Power and Taboo: Sacred Objects from the Pacific” brings many of the idols and myths which overwhelmed Peregrine in Polynesia to British shores so that others can enjoy them at their own leisure and pace.
Remember the Brady Bunch episode where they brought home that sacred talisman found in a cave in Hawaii? Yep, this exhibit is sort of like that. Better catch it before strange stuff starts happening around London.