[UA] Parables, Archetypes and the yellow brick road

[Nick Wedig]

>    On this note, I find it interesting how many innocuous things can be
>bent into religious/political significance by a mere lack of sleep or leap
>of imagination.  After a late night of gaming and watching a Cheers episode
>in which the crew claimed that the "Coyote was the Anti-Christ" my friends
>and I tied most of Scripture to the old Looney Tunes.  Once you tie the
>Coyote into Job, it's an easy walk...

You've got it all wrong.  The Coyote is the same as the Coyote trickster god from Native American myth, and the Roadrunenr is some sort of redefined version of the Raven, the other big Indian god.  Similarly, Bugs Bunny is an avatar of the Trickster god, though a more successful one (with Elmer Fudd being Thor to Bugs's Loki).  Which is why the cartoons where Wile E. chased Bugs never worked: it was a battle between two tricksters, and we didn't know which side to stand on (thoguh we knew which would win).

>    For that matter, I wonder if it would be effective to take something
>that everyone has _good_ memories of and then turn it into the mythology for
>a serial killer/rogue sorcerer or the like.  I once used "Alice in
>Wonderland" and Lewis Carroll to that effect in a Shadowrun game through
>effective use of Carroll's twisted background as a mathematician and amateur
>pornographer...  

Ken Hite's article on Jack the Ripper brought up Carroll as a suspect, IIRC.  And Robert Anton Wilson played some head games in Masks of the Illuminati by suggesting Alice had occult significances (via Crowley, probably both were just doing a mindfuck).  And then there's the recent video game Alice, which (from what I've seen) is more drug inspired than disturbing, but could inspire.

>    I seem to recall a Dean Koontz novel in which the young serial murderer
>based his entire mythology around "Star Wars" and Tolkien...

Which reminds me.  Since Alec Guinness died last August, the possibility for using him as an Icon reminds me of the line in the book about a magick school centered around "A certain sci-fi/action blockuster released in 1977" (or some such).  I'd look to his other roles ("Kind Hearts and Coronets" gives a bonus to disguise?) as much as or more so than his role in Star Wars, but the possibility of dukes using Jedi mind-tricks now exists.

Mr. Teapot
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