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Reply Subj: Kindred question Posted: Sun May 23, 2021 at 08:38:42 pm EDT (Viewed 187 times) | |||||||
Quote: What if Kindred actually Gwen Stacy somehow get back to life gained some powers i know it is absurb There is also the possibility that Kindred is the doppelgänger of Harry Lyman, in other words his spiritual double (or, conversely, Harry Lyman could be the spiritual double of Kindred). After all, a doppelgänger is a "kindred spirit". (A) The doppelgänger motif: a staple of Gothic horror literature... and comics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelgänger https://www.britannica.com/art/doppelganger https://www.thegothiclibrary.com/gothic-tropes-the-doppelganger/ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/nov/27/gothic-fiction-divided-selves https://epublications.marquette.edu/gothic_doppelganger/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siebenkäs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil's_Elixirs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilson_(short_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Double_(Dostoevsky_novel) Doppelganger_(Spider-Man)_(Earth-616)_from_Amazing_Spider-Man_Vol_1_384.jpg (B) Nick Spencer & doubles https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Steven_Rogers_(Earth-61311) https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Last_Son_of_Kraven_(Earth-616) https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Mystique_(Item) https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Peter_Parker_(Isotope_Genome_Accelerator_Duplicate)_(Earth-616) (C) The Egyptian connection According to Steve Ditko, Stan Lee initially wanted the Goblin to be an ancient mythological demon released from an Egyptian-like sarcophagus. Kindred is a mummy protected by centipedes and, actually, there is a centipede god in Egyptian mythology. It is associated with Horus ("life"), Anubis ("death") and Osiris ("resurrection"). https://ancientegyptonline.co.uk/sepa/ Ancient Egyptians believed that a person has a "spiritual double", the Ka. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_conception_of_the_soul https://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/civil/egypt/egcr05e.html https://www.britannica.com/topic/ka-Egyptian-religion | |||||||
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