Dayum, SeeNew... You usually wait to give the right answer. The archetype has been used in every culture for years... I think Cobb wrote about this a few years ago.
Technically, Loki (originally god of hearth and forge fires) does not belong with the rest. It's only when he is maltreated does he get malevolent. The others are just naturally innate assholes.
I'd put the characters of the joker and the weezely on the same bus, with the latter being a less lethal, more feminized version of the former.
Edshu is a far more sophisticated construct than Loki or Lucifer. Edshu is a really ancient take on the common root of medicate/meditate - as in - something to do with the source of consciousness.
Loki/Lucifer/Prometheus all have something in common wrt their "use" of consciousness and the "strife" with fate or with a higher/older/father god that that entailed - they're a common mythopoetic pointer.
Iblis - the peacock angel - is something completely different. Iblis is more like a composite deadly sin - I don't find much "agency" with Iblis - as distinct from the firebringer/daystar rebels.
Lastly, hip-hop - as a thing in itself distinct from a madison ave. twinkie like weezeler - has MUCH in common with Loki/Lucifer/Prometheus - that's why it had to be reappropriated and brought to curb by the architects and engineers of popular culture before it got completely out of hand...,
spreading strife...,
ReplyDeleteI have no idea. What do they have in common?
ReplyDeleteYeah, what's the answer?
ReplyDeleteI have no idea! But the statue's pretty cool;)
ReplyDeleteDayum, SeeNew... You usually wait to give the right answer. The archetype has been used in every culture for years...
ReplyDeleteI think Cobb wrote about this a few years ago.
( The Joker, Loki, Edshu, Hip-Pop )
ReplyDeleteTechnically, Loki (originally god of hearth and forge fires) does not belong with the rest. It's only when he is maltreated does he get malevolent. The others are just naturally innate assholes.
ReplyDeleteBut JK - Couldn't the same be said of Lucifer and Iblis?
ReplyDeleteI'd put the characters of the joker and the weezely on the same bus, with the latter being a less lethal, more feminized version of the former.
ReplyDeleteEdshu is a far more sophisticated construct than Loki or Lucifer. Edshu is a really ancient take on the common root of medicate/meditate - as in - something to do with the source of consciousness.
Loki/Lucifer/Prometheus all have something in common wrt their "use" of consciousness and the "strife" with fate or with a higher/older/father god that that entailed - they're a common mythopoetic pointer.
Iblis - the peacock angel - is something completely different. Iblis is more like a composite deadly sin - I don't find much "agency" with Iblis - as distinct from the firebringer/daystar rebels.
Lastly, hip-hop - as a thing in itself distinct from a madison ave. twinkie like weezeler - has MUCH in common with Loki/Lucifer/Prometheus - that's why it had to be reappropriated and brought to curb by the architects and engineers of popular culture before it got completely out of hand...,
They all look like they could potentially have hepatitis?!?
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