Male Fertility Gods
I just finished reading Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett. It is basically a reworking of Midsummer Night's Dream, but set in Discworld. Of course Oberon and Titania are there, though not mentioned...
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That is correct.An early storyboard showed Mei and Satsuki reading the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff but was cut. When Mei finds Totoro she identifies him as a tororo (troll.) Totoro is not,...
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I just wanted to mention a point about the Hellboy II half-a-demon. While it is obviously a Bunuelian character (or maybe a reference to Lon Chaney Sr. or maybe Freaks,) it is also impotent, since...
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hermanthegerm wrote:...And while Totoro is probably related to the Mononoke Forest God, at least conceptually, I don't know that Miyazaki consciously intended a connection. OK. I've just thought of...
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The Sankara stones are supposedly lingam shaped, which is why when taken away leave the country in a drought (unfertile.)The stone that was taken by the thughees is the Sivalinga (Shiva-lingam.) Shiva...
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hermanthegerm wrote:The rude giant also gets a mention in Pratchett's I Shall Wear Midnight, which I am currently reading.
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The whole thing is serendipitous synchronicity for me. I know I am coming across as some kind of obsessive nut (since I am posting most of the stuff,) but other than in a general form (I am into myths...
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hermanthegerm wrote:I thought of The Wicker Man, But I couldn't really remember any Male Fertility imagery, it's been a while. There's probably horns in there somewhere...Though the Hand of Glory...
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The Firebird segment has both a green winged female fairy, some sort of forest sprite/goddess, but she is also supported by a hart. So both sexes are represented in the regeneration of the forest...
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Interesting thread herman. Another set of synchronicities pertaining to horned god's :Herne The Hunter - English spirit of the wild hunt predominately localized to Windsor forest and surrounding area...
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Although the druids and other ancient Europeans decorated at holidays with evergreen boughs, apparently the idea of a Christmas TREE dates only from the 1400's or 1500's in Estonia, Latvia, and...
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Oh I too am skexpitcal, that's a healthy trait to have. We are after all as humans destined to search for patterns that may or may not be there. But it cannot be denied that world of myth and religion...
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Skexpitcism is good. But sometimes ideas or images just click. And if they click I will mention them here. Don't need any other justification.
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Actually, I'm not skexptical ... only skeptical. Sorry for starting a trend. The nuns would not have approved of my bad spelling, seeing it as a form of "collective unconscious" only too prevalent...
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hermanthegerm wrote:...Hellboy, refreshingly, matures over the course of two movies. And, if you discount the first film, he grows from child to mature adult in only his second film, resulting in two...
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The White Hart (Cernunnos?) makes an appearance in Snow White and the Huntsman (2013) it's not particularly well integrated into the story but seems to be a sort of Faerie King in a lush and fertile...
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I am going to talk about snails. Snails are hermaphoditic creatures, which if you look at you can probably have a pretty good model of the evolution of males/femaleness. According to the Greek myths...
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I think I’ve established that the actual puncturing is what actually symbolizes the Male principle. So the direction of the puncturing is important. I wonder what you would make of the generous horn...
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Have never seen the show so I have no opinion. However Silence of the Lambs abounds with symbolism. If the TV show derived from the success of the Lambs movie (say more so than of the novels or the...
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I believe I have mis-remembered Dragnet (1987) for some time. While there is a scene at a satanist orgy, it really does not have anything to do with the plot. The plot concerns the efforts of a secret...
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