![]() Ode to Odin captures something ineffable, something universal, something beyond time. A friendship with a man who lives as a deity is subject to the slightest whim. Working with Odin can be a dangerous occupation. The enterprise largely depends on the charisma and genius of Odin, charming and fierce, handsome and capricious, the embodiment of self-belief, a man who lives as a God even as he pursues the origins of religion. ![]() Yet no success is guaranteed in a land of violence and corruption, of unforgiving deserts, populated by vodka-soaked and acrimonious Russians, Turkomen, Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Tatars and Karakalpaks. Their quest, to audaciously reach out for the cryptic origins of God, is an intellectual pursuit of the highest ambition. ![]() The two men forge a friendship on the anvil of the deserts of Central Asia as they embark on a search for the homeland of Zoroaster the Prophet, arguably the progenitor of monotheism. A young British archaeologist makes a deal with the devil, the brilliant but dangerously unpredictable Odin.
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