[UA] Parables, Archetypes and the yellow brick road

[Nick Wedig]

>> 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 Wizard is the Comte, deftly existing as both the Wizard of Oz and as
>Professor Marvel, in both the Statosphere and Earth.  Dorothy is the Fool.

I saw the Wizard as an IC member (probably the Magus) who is kicked out of the IC by Dorothy's ascension, so he goes back to Omaha (the mundane world) and is revealed to be just a normal person, like me or you.

>    Baum shaped the entire story as an attempt to graft the power of the
>Statosphere to his (at the time unborn) daughter, Ozma, who he named after
>the rightful ruler of Oz.  Enough people read the Oz books and believed Ozma
>was the Princess of Oz that when his daughter came of age, she had an edge
>up on other contenders for the Queen of Dreams archetype.

That's where you're wrong.  Ozma was originally hidden from the usurping force in OZ and raised as a boy (Tip, IIRC), thus putting her on the path of the Mystic Hemaphrodite.  Which goes on to explain why Judy Garland and the entire Oz mythos is associated with alternative sexualities.


Mr. teapot
off to see the wizard

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