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erudito

Monotheism

Apr 16, 2010 23:01

Kerry G,, some years ago, wrote an ancient Egyptian same-sex love story set in the time of Akhenaton, where she cast Akhenaton as a villain. She found that this was simply not on in the publishing world. "Monotheism bad, polytheism good" was simply an unacceptable view.

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fizzyland April 16 2010, 16:14:38 UTC

Akhenaton was always my favorite Pharoh - the destruction of records from his time making piecing together the events of his reign difficult but it looked to me like he was a radical reformer.

Yes, like ... erudito April 16 2010, 19:19:53 UTC

Kerry G's view, after examining the evidence, was that he was a radical reformer in the way Hitler was a radical reformer.

Re: Yes, like ... fizzyland April 16 2010, 19:32:25 UTC

He was certainly hated - I don't remember reading about mass murder in his reign. And there's an interesting parallel to the new Battlestar Galactica prequel, Caprica, which is about the monotheists rising up to challenge the established polytheists.

Re: Yes, like ... erudito April 16 2010, 19:46:13 UTC

Perhaps the analogy works a bit better with Stalin: disruption of existing food management structures leading to famine.

Striking icon, btw.

Monotheism Not always = bad guy in BG lostinarcadia April 18 2010, 23:43:53 UTC

Mild Battlestar Galactica spoiler below.

Actually, I think monotheism wins out in the end of BG. I can't give you chapter and verse without tipping over into massive spoilers. Watch the final season to get this. Or talk to me in real world. One thing I really liked about BG is that no person, position or belief was all good (or all bad).

Re: Monotheism Not always = bad guy in BG erudito April 19 2010, 08:48:24 UTC

So monotheism has to win in the end. *sigh*

Personally, it is OK about spoilers, I have found the BG wiki.

assassinus April 19 2010, 12:24:15 UTC

Yes, Monotheism v the Pantheon in BG, as well as the general use of religion in the storylines which is most often avoided in Sci Fi is one of the things that makes it one of the better examples.

Religion is also dealt with in Stargate SG1, but the overal theme is anti religion, that religions are invented concepts to fool the people (in this case, invented by multiple different alien species to fool primitive humans).