[UA] Objects as Avatars?

[Kintaro Oe]

Mr. Hite's excellent Suppressed Transmission this week in Pyramid stirred 
up a question in my mind.

The column was about the Empire State building, and the weirdness that 
surrounds it. There were a lot of references to a variety of symbols and 
legends, and that made me wonder if it's possible for an object or place to 
be an "Avatar" of an Archetype.

Obviously in UA's humano-centric world, you wouldn't have members of the 
Clergy being filled by inanimate objects, but is it possible for something 
to embody the "Platonic ideal" (for lack of a better term right now) of 
something?

Taking the Empire State building, for example. Could it be a powerful 
"Avatar" of the Tower or the Axis Mundi? I'm seeing this as another 
opportunity to do what I love most about UA, and that's bring a certain 
reality and power to metaphors. A lot of weirdness locations could be 
explained by such "ideals"

- kabael - Kintaro Oe - Derek the Guder - kabael at softhome.net - ICQ# 24193592
the McGuffin Group - the End Times - RPG Action - the Thirteenth Legion

Chances are, I'm writing this without any pants on. Just thought you should 
know.



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