“They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. THEY LIVE.”
–John Carpenter’s “They Live”
“Mandala of Avalokiteshvara (Nyingma)
surrounded by the 100 peaceful
and wrathful deities of the Bardo”
Bono’s “Mirror Ball Man” from the Zoo TV Tour was a parody (a mirror?) of American televangelists:
From Jesus, Quetzalcoatl, Dionysos - Archetypal Yearning by Julian Walker
“In Southern and Central America there is a mythic figure common to several cultures. He is born of a virgin, ascends into the sky at the end of his time on Earth, promises to return and his symbol is the cross. His name is Quetzalcoatl, which literally translates to “feathered serpent,” and when the Spanish conquistadors landed, the natives thought they might be his second coming, what with how they occasionally represented him with fair hair and beard! The Spaniards for their part noticed that the local religion had striking similarities to their own, but not being well versed in symbols and archetypes their interpretation was that the devil had implanted a perverted version of Christianity there to try and drive the conquering sons crazy and lead them from the Lord…”
