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The hero and the saint: a comparison.

The hero and the saint: a comparison. Diana Galindo Barajas. The saint and the hero are figures that always has been present in the collective mind. They are not always the winners for a common logic where the main values are the things that easy, comfortable and usable. But divine things are beyond the common things. It lead us to the unknown things, to the mystery, things that are beyond human understanding. Because in the logic of the world the weak man, the biggest part of the humans will be dominated almost to disappear. The normal man is working for his own destruction and it is part of this nonsense logic. The question is: what is that mist that makes short our view? at least we need to point the fact that the names that are continuously appearing in the popular culture were taken from ancient mythologies, names that sounds nordic like Thor, Odin, Loki, etc. Names that are so ancient until the point of make us feel nostalgic about something that is in the past. Jean-Luc N