When and why did the mythos of superheroes and villains begin? Is Jesus Christ and the Holy Bible, just the retelling of old myths with a modern twist of mystery and prophecy to inspirer?
Was it simply a way to pass the time, to inspire strength in the young against looming threats, or because—once upon a time—heroes truly walked among us?
Today’s icons, like Superman, echo the archetypes of ancient days. One unlikely hero stands apart: Jesus Christ. In the Books of the Saviour, Jesus emerges not as a passive martyr, but as the most formidable of all heroes. Though he sacrificed everything and was murdered for it, he defied demons, archons, and death itself—and rose again. His spirit shone like light, able to shift forms and command the veils of the multiverse. He even spoke of Zeus, as if Zeus were real.
BOS 3:1 …This then came to pass on the fifteenth day of the moon, on the day on which it is full in the month Tybi.
2. It came to pass then, when Jesus had reached the heaven, after three hours, that all the powers of the heaven fell into agitation, and all were set in motion one against the other, they and all their æons and all their regions and all their orders, and the whole earth was agitated and all they who dwell thereon. And all men who are in the world fell into agitation, and also the disciples, and all thought, peradventure the world will be rolled up.
3. And all the powers in the heavens ceased not from their agitation, they and the whole world, and all were moved one against the other, from the third hour of the fifteenth day of the moon of Tybi until the ninth hour of the morrow…
BOS 136:17 "He bound eighteen-hundred rulers in every æon, and set three-hundred-and-sixty over them, and he set five other great rulers as lords over the three-hundred-and-sixty and over all the bound rulers, who in the whole world of mankind are called with these names: the first is called Kronos, the second Arēs, the third Hermēs, the fourth Aphroditē, the fifth Zeus."
Did Jesus and the ancient heroes like Zeus truly exist? Or are they mythic mirrors—fairy tales forged to help us endure, to give us strength when we falter? Does belief itself breathe life into them, as in the old Star Trek episodes?
Perhaps they are the best examples of true strength, guiding our children—or our reincarnated selves—toward greatness. Either way, Jesus is the light I aspire toward, the being I most long to resemble—whether fiction or truth.
By Iamwe
