[UA] Parables, Archetypes and the yellow brick road

[Nick Wedig]

>Just found this site which explains the iconography of the Wizard of OZ in terms of the populist party (A people's party at the turn of the 20th C for non-history/politic buffs).
>
>http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/dbj5/oz.html
>
>Very interesting I thought.  I know there must be some way to tie it into UA . . .

Obviously, the Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion, and Tin Man are various sorts of avatars, and the Emerald City is some sort of metaphor for the Statoshpere, with the Wizard being some ascended guy (The Magus, possibly).  The Tin Man's quite obviously some sort of technological archetype (the Cyborg, perhaps?) what with the replacing flesh with metal and chopping down trees (nature vs. technology).  The Scarecrow's either sort sort of scholar or idiot savant archetype (if he only had a brain) or he's some sort of Watchman archetype (as he was originally made for scaring away birds).  The Cowardly Lion is something along the lines of the Bully, who runs away at actual confrontation (though a more positive version of said archetype), or some sort of True King of Cowards (or of the Beasts?).  Dorothy has been sucked into the Occult Underground (Oz), though she just wants to go home, and pissed of the current godwalker of the Magus (or the Witch?), the Wicked Witch, but she just wants out!
.  However, she ends up channeling the path herself, at first accidentally but eventually consciously, when she uses the shoes.  (either the Wizard's leaving is via her booting him into the HoR, or she's channeling the path Glenda was on).

Obviously.

Mr. Teapot
tin woodsman

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