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28th March 2002 at 11:41 am #57286
bonnee
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Bonnee, I didn’t mean to imply that your remarks weren’t welcome. I only meant that I didn’t see where Season2 led directly to the anal humor in Season4 (which is what I assumed your remarks meant). IMO, the whole series has been about appetites of all kinds, which is just basic human nature (Dalek excepted).

I suppose what I was trying to suggest is that the anal humour has a deeper connotation. Anu(s) is the god of the sky and re/creation in various mythology, and the notion of anus as displacement connects up with the notion of an end/ing as a new beginning. Indeed, if you look up the Book of the Dead, you’ll find the idea(d) of Anu as day of judgement and deliverance. I include a copy and paste of Anus as deity.

“While Alalus was supreme in heaven, Anus became more powerful. After serving as Alalu’s cupbearer for nine years he then overthrew him, banishing him to under the earth as Zeus did Chronos in Greece. He then held the throne with Kumarbis as his cupbearer. Kumarbis then also rebelled, and Anus fled in the sky. During his flight Kumarbis bit off and swallowed his phallus. Through this act Kumarbis was impregnated with the Storm-god, the Aranzahas (Tigris) river, and Tasmisus.

Anus then retired in heaven, recalling the castrated Ouranos’ myth in Greece. From there he advised the Storm-god on exit strategies from Kumarbis. After the Storm-god’s ‘birth’ (regurgitation’), the triad brothers plotted to destroy Kumarbis and, with his other children, apparently succeeded . This story recalls Zeus giving ‘birth’ to Athena from his head and also Zeus’ overthrowing Chronos”.