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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2018

      6. The Nazi fascination with occultism & with myth (which provided fodder for some of the Indiana Jones movies) was a popular manifestation of the same tendency.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2018

      7. Of course, it's possible to take the same set of ideas & use them for other purposes. One of the achievements of Northrop Frye was that he took mythologist tradition of Jung & showed it could be progressive if you see myths as made culture, not timeless truths

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2018

      8. As per Frye: we inherit myths & archetypes but we also remake them. Blake turned the Devil into a hero, feminists like Kristin J Sollee turned witches into heroines. In Frozen, the traditional Disney witch-character (Elsa) is most loved character.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2018

      9. Myths aren't static & univocal (as Paterson treats them) but, like all cultural artifacts, contested, fluid & polyphonic. Frye showed this on a theoretical level, Jack Kirby through his art.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2018

      10. Running through Kirby's work is a fascination with myths, not seen as simply inherited things but open to renovation: mythology fusing with science fiction in stories of Ancient Astronauts (taken as much from pulps as von Danikens pseudo-science)pic.twitter.com/hWpZXL2t6l

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2018

      11. It's the fusion of science fiction with mythology that saves Kirby from the musty, status-quo loving traditionalism of the older mythologists: the New God embody older archetypes but also, crucially, contemporary uncertainty & anxiety.

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    7. Woke Mind Bacterium‏ @JimHenleyMusic 21 May 2018
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      BY IMPLICATION, the SFnal MCU Asgard, while not particularly true to the Thor comics*, is true to Kirbyism writ large.

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    8. Woke Mind Bacterium‏ @JimHenleyMusic 21 May 2018
      Replying to @JimHenleyMusic @HeerJeet

      *I know all about Thor's various space voyages, and read the Conway/Buscema run when it came out, because old. But the Kirby/Lee Asgard itself had no particular super-science about it that I recall.

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2018
      Replying to @JimHenleyMusic @UojiM

      Not quite right -- some of the weapons on Asgard were definitely high-tech super-science, not Norse mythological. Series itself bridged myth, superhero & space opera.

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    10. Woke Mind Bacterium‏ @JimHenleyMusic 21 May 2018
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Fair. I think the MCU version kind of flips the ratio though.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2018
      Replying to @JimHenleyMusic @UojiM

      Definitely -- they make explicit what is implicit in Kirby's Thor (and more explicit in New Gods & Eternals): Gods are beings advanced science.

      6:50 PM - 21 May 2018
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