No more Classics, they'll break my brain.
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itsallovernowOy, in answering a comment by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
boofadil, I started thinking about how Apollo and Dionysus can be represented through Lee Adama and Gauius Baltar.
Bangs head on desk, orders Classical Education to hit the road.
It works though, even explains why I prefer Baltar over cutie-pie Apollo. Because Dionysus is risk, is wine women song and theater. He's the portal between life and death, and Apollo is judgment and prophecy, god of the sun and completely free of humor. Which is understandable. He's in charge of the frigging sun.
The two of them eventually will come to be represented by Jesus Christ, merged through iconography, but at one point, they are intertwined, confused and praised, long hair and power, almost feminine in their features and their poses.
Which also feeds into the whole one god thing going on with the Cylons.
Argh. Stopping now. Thank god I was too inhibited to voice this sort of thing when I ventured into Farscape fandom. But don't think it's not still there, that I can't lay all of the characters out as not just archetypes in literature, not just, Joseph Campbell does Star Wars archetypes, but primary, primordial this is why we have gods and goddesses type archetypes. But none of us want that, do we? Didn't think so!
boofadil, I started thinking about how Apollo and Dionysus can be represented through Lee Adama and Gauius Baltar. Bangs head on desk, orders Classical Education to hit the road.
It works though, even explains why I prefer Baltar over cutie-pie Apollo. Because Dionysus is risk, is wine women song and theater. He's the portal between life and death, and Apollo is judgment and prophecy, god of the sun and completely free of humor. Which is understandable. He's in charge of the frigging sun.
The two of them eventually will come to be represented by Jesus Christ, merged through iconography, but at one point, they are intertwined, confused and praised, long hair and power, almost feminine in their features and their poses.
Which also feeds into the whole one god thing going on with the Cylons.
Argh. Stopping now. Thank god I was too inhibited to voice this sort of thing when I ventured into Farscape fandom. But don't think it's not still there, that I can't lay all of the characters out as not just archetypes in literature, not just, Joseph Campbell does Star Wars archetypes, but primary, primordial this is why we have gods and goddesses type archetypes. But none of us want that, do we? Didn't think so!
