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Advice from the NRL's biosecurity experts was that tropical Townsville carried the least risk in regards to the pandemic. We alternate every year [with] NSW and Queensland being guaranteed a live game.

So for us, it was important to make sure there was at least one Queensland live game in the rotation. Fittler said on Sports Sunday that there had been a late bid for Bankwest Stadium in western Sydney to host the Origin clash on June 9.

Abdo added the Queensland Government's preference was to play the game in Townsville rather than holding consecutive Origin fixtures at Suncorp Stadium.

Maroons mentor Paul Green was cautious about his team being lulled into a false sense of security. I think everyone will embrace it from that point of view.

Both in the Bible and in the Gilgamesh Epic the man receives food from the woman, covers his naked body and is forced to leave his place of origin. What made the story of Adam and Eve so central to the Christian faith, much more so than to Islam or Judaism, was that the Church decided that the story was to be interpreted literally. To Jews and Muslims respectively, the story of Genesis was far less essential; for them, their identity as a people was much more important.

Around A. Bishop Augustine of Hippo put forth thorough theological arguments as to why the story of Adam and Eve should be interpreted not as a myth, but rather as an absolute historical truth. All of a millennium later, Renaissance artists figured out how to confer life upon stories and managed to do what Augustin had called them to do: make Adam and Eve real. This made the myths collapse. During the masterclass discussion, Mark Friis Hau pointed to the importance of origin stories in political anthropology, mentioning examples of the function of such narratives in the interplay between national and European identities in Scotland and Catalonia.

Some believe that the Moors were the adversary, others say it was the Normans. Thus, the four red bands of red on a yellow background became a national symbol.

Hau explained how strife is still a central phenomenon in the collective memory of Catalonians. The most interesting aspects of origin myths, Hau said, is how they are used in the present. Panu Heimonen approached origin stories from another angle entirely. His research centres on music analysis and narrative theory with applications to various musical contexts. Why's Origin Game 2 on Sunday and not Wednesday? Scheduling a State of Origin game on a Sunday isn't a break from tradition.

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