Subject: Re: TP - Dec 1 episode
From: sarwate@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Sanjiv Sarwate)
Date: 1990-12-06, 10:18
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,alt.tv.twin-peaks

alternat@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Ann Hodgins) writes:

> >Various references in the last episode made me wonder about
> >the religious mythology associated with the fall of Satan.
> >The cover of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses shows an image
> >of two men falling to earth together, head to toe. 
> > 
> >This image is not american but it is not unfamiliar. Does anyone
> >out there know more about it? Does that image represent Satan
> >and if so, why are there two?
> > 
> >a.h.

One theory that has been presented is that the names of MIKE and BOB are   
based on religious mythology.  J.R.R. Tolkein used a similar tale in The
Silmarillion.  The gist is that the Personification of Darkness was at
one point the mightiest servant of Light, who, through pride, fell from
his exalted status.  In Tolkein, Melkor was the most Exalted of all the
Vala, yet his pride caused his fall from the halls of the Valar.  Similarly,
Lucifer was the mightiest of the angels, but his pride caused his fall,
and he was cast from heaven by the archangel Michael.  The name MIKE
is theorized to possibly be the archangel, where as BOB is a bastardization
of Beelzebub.

Maybe.


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