This reading diary is over the first half of the California and Old Southwest unit and there are three things that I want to talk about.
So my all-time favorite television show, Supernatural, has just started its 11th season and the big bad is called The Darkness. It was released when stuff and things happen (plot stuff that I won’t reveal in case someone is reading this who hasn’t seen the show and may eventually watch it) and is shown as a roiling black mass – much like how it was described in “The Creation of the World”: “…the darkness gathered until it became a great mass.”
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| The Darkness Returns |
Supernatural has it as the Darkness existing before God and everything else, but when God decided to create the world, He locked away the Darkness so that it wouldn’t hurt His creations.
Coyote
I have a particular affinity for all trickster tales – especially Loki, even before the Thor and Avengers movies. Which could arguably retitled “Loki Did a Thing and Thor Was Banished” and “Loki Did a Thing and Now New York Is under Attack.” This could actually work for a lot of the Norse mythology – see the flow chart below.
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| Norse Crisis Flowchart |
Loki and Coyote both disturb the status quo – often just for the sheer pleasure of it. Their independence and anti-authority antics makes identifying with them easy and allows people to embrace their inner rebels.
Great Floods
Just about every religion and culture has a great flood story and that fascinates me. Is it just that huge floods are typical around the world? What exactly constitutes a ‘great flood’ worthy of its own legend? Would the recent flooding in South Carolina be substantial enough? Perhaps it’s the flash flooding that can happen along mountain ranges – when spring storms are coupled with the melting snowcaps that sweep through, causing mudslides and washing away crops and homes and people.
People are just so fascinated by natural disasters that we have to some way to reason them out.
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