[UA] Parables, Archetypes and the yellow brick road

[Eric Brennan]

Great, Dueling Mystic Conspiracies...
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From: "Nick Wedig" <mrteapot at disinfo.net>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: Re:[UA] Parables, Archetypes and the yellow brick road


> >> 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.

    That's what they want you to think--if the Wizard gets booted out of the
IC, he goes to the House of Renunciation, working against the supernatural
and the efforts of Baum to build up a Queen of Dreams archetype (or Dorothy,
whichever...).  Am I the only person who noticed that the young man who
accidentally killed Harry Houdini had claimed to be paid to sucker punch the
escape artist by a "Professor Marvell?" *


> >    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.

Oooh, good call, that...I'd forgotten about Tip.  After reading the Doom
Patrol, I always saw the Ruby Slippers as a metaphor for
menstruation/womanhood/being forced into feminine adulthood.  Those Ruby
Slippers on a man would be a powerful Artifact for anyone seeking the Mystic
Hermaphrodite...

--Eric
*All made up except for the bit about the college student sucker punching
Houdini, but damn it sounds good...


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