Russia’s Mythical Cauldron of Rebirth

Bran, king of the island of Britain, literally lost his head during a raid to seize the Irish king’s Cauldron of Rebirth.

At the end of each day’s battle you dropped your dead men into the kettle, and by dawn they’d be alive again.

Putin tells us “we have a huge human resource.”

Yet, Russia lost 75,000 souls on taking Bakhmut, just 0.006 of Ukraine. To conquer all of Ukraine at that rate of loss either Putin needs 5 trillion soldiers, or the biggest Cauldron of Rebirth the world has yet seen.

Bran’s head is buried in London, facing France. As long as it’s buried there, it was prophesied the French would never invade the island of Britain.

And, yet, with the Norman Conquest, the French returned.

Like Bran Putin lost all in his hunt for the Cauldron of Rebirth.

Source: Russia’s Mythical Cauldron of Rebirth

Welsh mythology meets the mathematics of attrition. Bran’s Cauldron of Rebirth — drop the dead in, they rise alive by dawn — is the archetype behind Putin’s ‘we have a huge human resource.’ But the data demolishes the archetype: 75,000 dead for 0.006 of Ukraine. At that rate, 5 trillion soldiers or the biggest cauldron ever. Like Bran, Putin lost everything hunting a myth. Archetypal literacy means measuring the archetype against the data.

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