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>His sacred spaces are symbolized by “mountains”, such as the one where he meets with his deceased father’s apparition / spirit. These are places far from all traces of man, it is his divine “kingdom” which when entered, even allows him to have conversations with deceased and symbolically charged figures like his father.
Superman's sacred place is the Fortress of Solitude, not anywhere located in the rest of the world which is something that Snyder explicitly left out in his failed attempt to "humanise" Superman. You could make the argument that he's supposed to be Hyperborean given he fits the archetype of the Hyperboreans while his sacred place being located in a space virtually impenetrable to man even now would underline this. You could also argue that his vision of Jor-el in the mountains is supposed to be a reference to the agony of Christ in the Garden or that the Fortress represents a "Throne" in the gnostic/Enoch sense.
>Batman conceives an opening with the divine (because of an inner conflict resolved, as per what we’ll see further). This opening, without denying the Fall, suggests a possibility for humanity not to build a paradise (which would be Promethean, like Babel), but to rebuild what is destroyed by their downfall.
If anything, this is more Zoroastrian than it is Christian given it is preaching a more violent form of dualism by suggesting that this conflict is played out in a grand clash rather than on an individual level. Superman is Zoroaster, his father being Ahura Mazda, Ahriman being Lex, while Batman and Wonder Woman are supposed to represent mankind trying to find their way amidst this clash of titans.
>The objects in the film are associated with men and not with the divine
To the detriment of the film imo, given it places too much emphasis on the main characters and what they represent in contrast to the world and setting.
>His sacred spaces are symbolized by “mountains”, such as the one where he meets with his deceased father’s apparition / spirit. These are places far from all traces of man, it is his divine “kingdom” which when entered, even allows him to have conversations with deceased and symbolically charged figures like his father.
Superman's sacred place is the Fortress of Solitude, not anywhere located in the rest of the world which is something that Snyder explicitly left out in his failed attempt to "humanise" Superman. You could make the argument that he's supposed to be Hyperborean given he fits the archetype of the Hyperboreans while his sacred place being located in a space virtually impenetrable to man even now would underline this. You could also argue that his vision of Jor-el in the mountains is supposed to be a reference to the agony of Christ in the Garden or that the Fortress represents a "Throne" in the gnostic/Enoch sense.
>Batman conceives an opening with the divine (because of an inner conflict resolved, as per what we’ll see further). This opening, without denying the Fall, suggests a possibility for humanity not to build a paradise (which would be Promethean, like Babel), but to rebuild what is destroyed by their downfall.
If anything, this is more Zoroastrian than it is Christian given it is preaching a more violent form of dualism by suggesting that this conflict is played out in a grand clash rather than on an individual level. Superman is Zoroaster, his father being Ahura Mazda, Ahriman being Lex, while Batman and Wonder Woman are supposed to represent mankind trying to find their way amidst this clash of titans.
>The objects in the film are associated with men and not with the divine
To the detriment of the film imo, given it places too much emphasis on the main characters and what they represent in contrast to the world and setting.
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