Subject: Gesar: Tibetan Arthur (was Glastonbury)
From: crago_l@cubldr.colorado.edu
Date: 1992-09-29, 13:29
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1992Sep21.105917.7654@ac.dal.ca>, 01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes:
> > In article <RJRcRB2w165w@netlink.cts.com>, jim@netlink.cts.com (Jim Bowery) writes:
>> >> tallman%ailanth.uucp@wang.com (Robert Oliver) writes:
>> >> 
>>> >>>  
>>> >>> Glastonbury is a small town in Somerset England. It is believed to be the 
>>> >>> site of Britain's first Christian community. Some tidbits about 
>>> >>> Glastonbury gleaned from the many tales of King Arthur:
>>> >>>  

> > Actually, it is equated in some legends with Avalon. According to the legends,
> > Aurthur isn't dead, but waiting until england is in its moment of greatest 
> > need...
> > 
> > 
> > All this stuff leads me to believe that maybe people are being nabbed so that
> > the will serve humanity in its hour of greatest need. Maybe Aurthur, and 
(stuff deleted)
> > 
> > Mike

Here comes a Tibetan tie-in again. Their epic hero, Gesar of Ling, is
commonly believed to be *sleeping* until his people have great need of
him again, at which time he will arise and lead a great army that will
defeat the world-wide enemy, just like King Arthur of Great Britian.

As I noted in a previous post, I see an Arthurian motif in the fact
that both Teresa Banks and Laura Palmer were floated down the river.
This relates to Elaine the Lily Maid, who was hopelessly in love with
Launcelot (hope I'm correct there), and killed herself because he only
had eyes for Queen Guinevere. In TP and FWWM, both victems were killed
on land, presumably far from a river (wooded upland), so had to be
wrapped in plastic, transported however far it was, and then set afloat
on the river -- great shot of Teresa floating down the Wind River in
FWWM -- so the action obviously did not follow logically, but had to be
included because of its symbolism or mythic motif value. Make sense?

Question about David Lynch -- does anybody know his birth data? He most
generously gave us birth dates for the main characters in TP, but I
would love to see his own chart.

Lou

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