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Started by stumblingvoyager, December 29, 2010, 04:15:38 AM

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Thought it might be rather a nice idea to condense together some historical/religious archetypes that undermine religious textual authority, taking inspiration from James George Frazer's work The Golden Bough.  For example, the stiking similarities between Christ/Bacchus/Dionysus/Mithras, and how different religious systems can worship the same archetype in differing ethical frameworks.  The same themes and characters keep appearing throughout myth and religion; so is religion merely the action of a particularly mischevious part of the subconscious?

(Any experts in Carl Gustav Jung are welcome here!)
"It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity"
-Gilles Deleuze