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Nov. 29th, 2005 09:20 amCan't wait for NARNIA to come out. I'm surprised by the number of people who have never heard of or read the books. really good classic fantasy stuff. some poor folks who clearly don't know the material but do know that C S Lewis was christian have some crazy idea that Azlan represents christ. this proves both that they don't understand the books and also that they know very little about christ. He was not the lion of god, he was the lamb of god. here's some great comments about the story-
"Yet a central point of the Gospel story is that Jesus is not the lion of the faith but the lamb of God, while his other symbolic animal is, specifically, the lowly and bedraggled donkey. The moral force of the Christian story is that the lions are all on the other side. If we had, say, a donkey, a seemingly uninspiring animal from an obscure corner of Narnia, raised as an uncouth and low-caste beast of burden, rallying the mice and rats and weasels and vultures and all the other unclean animals, and then being killed by the lions in as humiliating a manner as possible—a donkey who reëmerges, to the shock even of his disciples and devotees, as the king of all creation—now, that would be a Christian allegory. A powerful lion, starting life at the top of the food chain, adored by all his subjects and filled with temporal power, killed by a despised evil witch for his power and then reborn to rule, is a Mithraic, not a Christian, myth."
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/content/articles/051121crat_atlarge
good old Mythras, folks always forget just how big Mythras was before the christ-myth took off.
"Yet a central point of the Gospel story is that Jesus is not the lion of the faith but the lamb of God, while his other symbolic animal is, specifically, the lowly and bedraggled donkey. The moral force of the Christian story is that the lions are all on the other side. If we had, say, a donkey, a seemingly uninspiring animal from an obscure corner of Narnia, raised as an uncouth and low-caste beast of burden, rallying the mice and rats and weasels and vultures and all the other unclean animals, and then being killed by the lions in as humiliating a manner as possible—a donkey who reëmerges, to the shock even of his disciples and devotees, as the king of all creation—now, that would be a Christian allegory. A powerful lion, starting life at the top of the food chain, adored by all his subjects and filled with temporal power, killed by a despised evil witch for his power and then reborn to rule, is a Mithraic, not a Christian, myth."
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/content/articles/051121crat_atlarge
good old Mythras, folks always forget just how big Mythras was before the christ-myth took off.
