In norse mythology, earthquakes are explained because Loki is chained to one of Yggdrasil's roots and when his wife has to go and empty a bowl, snake venom (mini jormangadr?) drips on him and he thrashes in agony.
There are lot of things wrong with this picture, but we can rescue it.
In reality, Socrates is chained to the roots of Yggdrasil, and hemlock poison is continually dripped into his mouth, keeping him insensate, as if dead. Sometimes it stops, and in these times, truth stops being hideously unpopular. Demand rises enough to be distinguishable from zero.
This is probably book 2 of the story of a similarly chained and tortured immortal representing cleverness or wisdom, Prometheus, who died in prison rather a long time ago. The false stories resonate because they are different misreadings of the same true intuition.
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