So: in 20th century, reactionaries often used comparative mythology as substitute for (now discredited) natural theology: a rational for believing social order reflected some timeless, transhistorical truth.
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There were, of course, exceptions to this, particularly scholars who moved further away from traditional canon of western myth:https://twitter.com/wdcfelix/status/997632941294579712 …
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If were really up to speed I'd do a thread on Carl Jung, comparative mythology, Jordan Peterson, fascism, the Indiana Jones movies, ancient astronauts & Jack Kirby's theological-science-fiction cycle (Thor-New Gods-Eternals-Captain Victory). But I need to read more.
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Jack Kirby's fascination with the ancient astronaut theme (running from 1950s till end of life) was linked to his anti-fascism: it was reclaiming mythology from the reactionaries by showing it was not timeless truth but living & transformative storytelling.
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I wonder why this is.
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"the savant as reactionary", is what a critic once called Campbell.
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Don't forget T.S. Eliot.
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Myth or misogyny? Sometimes I get the two mixed up.
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You can probably count the late Schelling and Dumézil among them, but the true exception would be the anthropologists that looked beyond Europe and saw the depth of Amazonian cosmologies, for example.
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