#Eternals: sci-fi, myths, and religion
Chloé Zhao’s ‘Eternals’, as well as the Marvel comics it is drawn from, seems inspired by some anthropological suspicions.
Why old religions always foresaw catasterisms*?
Taken for granted creativity and imagination of prehistoric and ancient men, and cults of Nature a part, where did some myths come from?
Why so many prehistoric and historic handcrafts seem to be based on alien, extraterrestrial imagines?
Why in Mahabharata it is told of a weapon more powerful than thousand suns?
Why the Latin historian Tacitus (in Historiae**) wrote of a sort of battle in sky, while the temple of Jerusalem was about to be built down, and referred of a voice coming from inside: «Gods are leaving!»?
Was the word Elohim in the Holy Bible just another name for God or, given the plural form, did it mean many different divinities, as thought by some?
And what of the possibility that some discoveries throughout the entire history of humanity could have been inspired by people coming from other worlds?
Of course, scientists and academic professors are quite sceptical toward such approaches, and are more likely to take as possible solutions superstitions, optical illusions, (altro…)