Seeding myths

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• Seeding myths 🔊

  Let's start the vertical and horizontal analysis of past, present and future myths.

  • is_parent TOPOI

    Which topics are common to sci-fi ? Which ones are shared with other forms of fiction (fairy-tales, mythology, fantasy, speculative fiction) ? Which topics dis

    • is_parent Space 🔒 ·

      notion of other worlds (continents, moon, planets, solar systems, flat worlds etc.) there is often a technology allowing one to "translate" between these worlds
    • is_parent Time 🔒 ·

      time slow-down / time acceleration time dilation time machines and time loops pre-cognition and post-cognition reversal of 2nd Law of Thermodynamics / axis of t
    • is_parent Reality 🔒

      parallel worlds / universes / multiverses uchronias / alternative history worlds dreams, hallucinations, psychoses, altered states of consciousness post-death,

      • is_parent Narrative Ingression 🔒 ·

        Narrative ingression: the process by which a fictional NARRATIVE ENTERS and becomes actual within the reader’s reality, dissolving the boundary between the ima
    • is_parent Energy 🔒 ·

      new sources of energy / new access to known sources of energy (nuclear fusion, rain energy) new means of storing energy other forms of energy (e.g. Elan Vitale,
    • is_parent Nature 🔒 ·

      animals, past animals (mammooths, dinos), hybrids (centaurs, pegasus) , aliens mutants; possible evolutionary developments (e.g. speaking poodles, planet of ape
    • is_parent Brain & Body 🔒

      body extensions: protesis, (trans|im)plants, new body parts, exoskelets, nanotech biochemical modifications (drugs, genetics) sex, androgyny, kink transcendenc

      • is_parent Your (super)power(s) 🔒 ·

        Little wake-up exercise: Create two circles, to each person in inner circle corresponds a person in the outer circle. Within the couple You ask each other "What
    • is_parent Society 🔒 ·

      reactivated social forms already known from history (tribe-like communities, matriarchy, kingdom, empire, slavery) extrapolations of existing trends (surveillan
    • is_parent Machine 🔒 ·

      humans create something "to their image" creation surpasses its creatorsomething (a glitch, a divine intervention, a spark of empathy) happensa conflict betwee
  • is_parent India

    King Kakudmi & Revati visit Brahmā’s realm — return after 27 yuga cycles (Bhāgavata Purāṇa 9.8.26–28). King Muchukunda sleeps for an age;

    • is_parent Avatar (etymology) ·

      "descent of a Hindu deity to earth in an incarnate or tangible form," from Sanskrit avatarana "descent" (of a deity to the earth in incarnate form), from ava-
  • is_parent Greece ·

    Pandora — first woman crafted from clay → engineered being. Pygmalion — sculptor creates a synthetic woman brought to life by Aphrodite →
  • is_parent Egypt ·

    Ra’s solar barque sails across sky and underworld each day → cosmic ship. The Duat (𓂋𓏏𓈉) as cyclical underworld journey → time loop / nightly re
  • is_parent China

    The artificer Yan Shi presents the Yellow Emperor with a mechanical man of wood and leather — moves, sings, even flirts → one of the earliest robot legends. Lu

    • is_parent Yellow Emperor & the Queen Mother of the West 🔒 ·

      The Yellow Emperor traveled north of the Red River and ascended the Hill of Kunlun. Turning south to return, he lost his way and for three months could not find
  • is_parent Maya and Inca ·

    Maya and Inca
  • is_parent Yorumba, Dogon &c. ·

    Yorumba, Dogon &c.
  • is_parent Edda & Kalevala ·

    Edda & Kalevala
  • is_parent Artefact of the day - Table of destiny

    Ancient Sumerian–Babylonian mythic tablets inscribed with the divine code of the universe — whoever possessed them controlled fate, kingship, and cosmic order.

    • is_parent Kernel of the Operating System 🔒 ·

      The Kernel is the sequence of symbols of constituting the core program of a computer’s Operating System — it manages memory, processes, and com
  • is_parent Lecture for next week ·

    The Mahābhārata – The Vimana Episode The Painter and the Mechanical Maiden Daedalus and Icarus King Kakudmi and Revati King Muchukunda Awakens Wang Ziqia