Plot
Animism: The Gods' Lake is something of a "First Nations' Narnia" - a youth-focused fantasy epic but one that is deeply rooted in Aboriginal legends and beliefs rather than Christian mythology. The pilot episode begins the adventures of Mel Ravensfall as she discovers what lies beneath the sacred site at the Gods' Lake. As she uncovers the roots of a timeless conflict between the natural forces of the Mother and those beings that would rend the world asunder, Mel will come to realize that the world around her is dangerously out of joint. And only she has the power to bring it back to balance. Told in the splashy visual story of a high-definition motion comic, Animism: The Gods' Lake, is a strikingly different television series. Combining highly stylized cinematic effects with vector-based animation, this is a fantasy world that will ensnare and excite Aboriginal children from across the country by updating the traditional stories, figures and belief with which they have been raised. It may be a "pop culture" approach to this material, but it is one that will speak to today's youth with a new voice.As she uncovers the roots of a timeless conflict between the natural forces of the Mother and those beings that would rend the world asunder, Mel will come to realize that the world around her is dangerously out of joint. And only she has the power to bring it back to balance.
Keywords: 2d-animation, aboriginal-spirituality, motion-graphics, power-struggle, youth-programme
A dark age for one is a golden age for another.
Animism (from Latin anima "soul, life") refers to a set of beliefs that revolve around the existence of non-human "spiritual beings" or similar kinds of embodied principles. The core beliefs of animism are held in common by a diverse group of people, primarily the world's remaining "primitive" tribal peoples and many of the living descendants of tribal peoples previously colonized.
Animism encompasses the beliefs that there is no separation between the spiritual and physical (or material) world, and souls or spirits exist, not only in humans, but also in all other animals, plants, rocks, geographic features such as mountains or rivers, or other entities of the natural environment. Animism may further attribute souls to abstract concepts such as words, true names, or metaphors in mythology. Examples of Animism can be found in forms of Shinto, Serer, Hinduism, Buddhism, Pantheism, Paganism, and Neopaganism.
Throughout European history, philosophers such as Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, among others, contemplated the possibility that souls exist in animals, plants, and people; however, the currently accepted definition of animism was only developed in the 19th century by Sir Edward Tylor, who created it as "one of anthropology's earliest concepts, if not the first".
Erik Davis (b. 1967 in Redwood City, California) is a North American writer, social historian, cultural critic and lecturer.[citation needed]
He is noted for his study of the history of technology and society and his essays about the fate of the individual in the dawning posthuman era. Although significant aspects of his work include media criticism and technology criticism, his works span across other disciplines to include a larger social history of art, religion, and science, technology, and politics.
He is also a noted Philip K. Dick scholar. His most recently published research has focused on the history of utopian movements in California.[citation needed]
His first book, TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information, was released by Harmony Books in the fall of 1998. It has been translated into five languages.
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When he cannot see the shadow unrelating & slowly
Anymore he's destined to die
Beware of crossing & treading by the light of sun
The burial of the tomb
And then I've seen my double painted in a portrait
Who looks at me from a mirror
Animism The latent part of demons
Animism Manifestation of hidden
Animism Beside double of shadows
Inspired or kill me!!!
I must realize my double before seeing my body image
The dream shows me my "own other" while I am the other
Look at me
A strict relation between Gemini's obsession &
Anguish of death
Schizophrenic presence stands beyond the door
Alone in deep silence to reflect my trouble
I am walking hanged 'til the dark room
Mother & daughter double of nightmare
She's calling her name
Between the conflict schizophrenic Christ
And his other antichrist
His other in the reign of dream reflects
On water surface
The shadows of the soul of aldrego in the night