Follow the object, not the family tree.

Route A: The thunderbolt

Begin with weather as presence, continue through authority and consequence, then compare how sculpture and later visual culture compress the sky into a handheld sign.

Route B: The woven thread

Move from craft to fate, from patient labour to competition, and from material thread to the metaphor of a life measured and cut.

Route C: The threshold

Doors, caves, shorelines and mountain paths separate worlds. Myths repeatedly ask who may cross, under what rule and at what cost.