Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:08:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: edatkeson-AT-earthlink.net
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Sacred Puppetry


Hi Alan, I'm the one who didn't know. "Little Mary." I always learn something when you post.

What about this idea?  The Adam and Eve account in Genesis is the story of the birth of human consciousness. They ate from "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil," not a common tree. And they became conscious of their nakedness, self conscious. They were thrown out of the comfortable bliss of Eden, which you could say is the condition of the animals.

This may be the story of our coming to know of our mortality, becoming human. And it is so exquisite and sophisticated. I think the writers would be surprised to know that so many people take this wonderful poetic myth to be some kind of history.

About sacred puppets, someone mentioned the life and death boundary. I think puppets get some power from that, don't know if I would call it sacred, maybe mystical.

thanks,
Ed
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Adam & Eve is the story of 2 disobedient children who tried to get around laws.
Too bad fr them that lawyrs had not yet been invented..  Mr Punch is the story of one disobdient person who ignores the laws.He pretty much got away with it until the Victorians added the crocodile to make it a moral tale for Sunday School picnics.

So there are parallels.

Is there anyone on puptcrit who does not know the origin of the word MARIONETTE, dating back to the European Middle Ages when puppets performed in churches to tell the story of Adam & Eve, the Nativiy and Crucifiction of Jesus and everything in between? Since most of the congregation was illiterate, puppets or actors could relate the stories and keep the attention of the viewers. The Virgin Mary was depicted in puppet form (a little Mary or Marionette).
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