Blog 10 American Gods week 8
There seems to be an uncertainty if the myths and legends and gods are
real or not almost as if you cannot tell between illusion and what is real. This
is a reflection how these traditions are place in our modern society. It seems
like the myths are being explored in dreams that which cannot be prove to be
real or base on the subconscious, leaving this up to the reader if this was
just a dream or a real prophecy. In
Shadow’s dream there seem to be an Native American gods with a human body and
the head of a buffalo; the buffalo is consider sacred to the tribe as a source
of life and appear in his dream like a oracle or vision or being psychic. In Greek
mythology and Native American traditions you see visions the godlike creatures
speak in riddles or very obscurely like a prophecy. Strange dreams have some
hidden meaning that could be a warning of the danger in real life. I believe
that Shadow is not the type to be religious therefore he interprets all this god-like magic and strange effects to be either a really good trick or illusion
from the point of view of a modern human with no belief and is very logical. Shadow
himself represents today's generic average-joe with no defining foundation of his own, no
solid belief everything he does is usually from advises from his previous
cellmates.
There are hints at the beginning that the gods are real. Example: the
producer and his hooker. There seems to be a set up of an altar in the bedroom
of the hotel where the producer is making love to a goddess pretending to be a
hooker. The producer experience is quite similar to enlighten where your mind
is blank of fear and with peace and clarity because in some religion there seem
to be an eroticism and sexual awakening like in Hinduism and that when you give
yourself in sex you are also acknowledging n will the power of the gods or god
and awakening the super natural’s magic can work the producer becomes a
sacrifice to the goddess as he “offer” himself off to her.
The gods seem to suffer like humans when their jobs and roles were
terminated and they lost power, they had to struggle in the slums to survive.
There seems to be an identity crisis of America since America was created by
immigrates from around the world and therefore has multi religions, traditions,
and identities.
There is conflict with the old vs. new traditions and customs, we humans
throughout history have constantly changed our priorities and beliefs therefore
most of the younger generation neglect the old religions and traditions. We
humans have gone through many trends trying to evolve through our technology,
which is reflected on the new gods that focus on the materialistic side and
instead of the primitive spiritual side. The gods are our reflection of what
our values are. Tradition is being threatened by modern trends that make the
old traditions out dated. We humans go through so many trends that don’t last
but the reason why the old gods still exist because they were the foundation to
how the humans found hope and created our civilization in surviving and judging
by the novel “American God “ we are on the verge of destroying our civilization
with our materialistic obsession, our origin that makes us who we are they are
part of who we are and our culture even if we forgotten them or only see them
as myths and legends. The old customs are not prioritizes in our modern American
society, who has its own goal for the people to dream big, work to get the
latest advance technology and medical and other trends.
Lady in the water movie seem like the water people are the voice or
subconscious if the humans that the humans forgotten humans have feed
themselves with lies and hid from the truth and so the water people are like
the reflection of humans to see beneath the surface. When see the water like a
mirror everything is clearer. Go deeper in to the mind bring out the ideals and
hope for humanity that had lead to astray when the humans abandoned them as
nothing more than a fairytale that has morality. The water is very symbolic that
anything that comes from the sea will return to the sea like sea turtles or “The
little mermaid” just like the humans even if they were lead astray they will
return back to who they were suppose to be, with the help of water people.
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