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Hermes or Wings and Things
So I have kind of a head canon thing for Kurt as the Egyptian Thoth* (magician, boundary crosser extraordinaire, presider over ceremony & ritual [e.g., weddings, funerals, coronations, judgement of the soul] healer, arbiter of death & resurrection), who is associated strongly with the Greek Hermes, and I just spotted Kurt in these shoes on the Fashion of Glee blog. More Kurt + wings/birds/flying, which is even extra neat in my brain given the Kurt's travel by airplane spoilers du jour.
*Thoth/Hermes is like the primo Jungian animus archetype. Oh, Is it worth mentioning, Thoth is a bird (Ibis headed)?
Cupid is not Hermes-like, but he is another winged thing, and Kurt plays Cupid to Blaine's Psyche in Part V, so I thought it may be worth mentioning a couple things about this while I was thinking about Kurt (and Blaine) and wings.
The Roman Cupid is interesting, but I am even more interested (in my story) in the resonance of Kurt with Eros (Cupid's Greek counterpart/predecessor/analogue) in this part. Eros, in the Greek take on things, is one of the primordial Gods, and he's no cutesy diapered renaissance cherub, he is Human Desire and sexual power, born of Darkness and Night. He mates with Chaos, within the Abyss, to produce humanity. This is just wikipedia level stuff, but it's not irrelevant. I believe in symbolic resonance.
Psyche is also winged, once she gains immortality (the girl is a BAMF--I mean, she travels into and out of Hades on her own); she is depicted with butterfly wings. Psyche is both the Greek word for butterfly* and the human mind.
So, the marriage of desire & mind is kind of a potent thing. With wings.
*I won't blather on about butterfly symbolism too much here, but there is so much with butterflies, not just metamorphosis, but also stuff like healing grief and keeping/transporting secrets and the love of young men and marital bliss and death & resurrection and apparently I am rambling.
*Thoth/Hermes is like the primo Jungian animus archetype. Oh, Is it worth mentioning, Thoth is a bird (Ibis headed)?
Cupid is not Hermes-like, but he is another winged thing, and Kurt plays Cupid to Blaine's Psyche in Part V, so I thought it may be worth mentioning a couple things about this while I was thinking about Kurt (and Blaine) and wings.
The Roman Cupid is interesting, but I am even more interested (in my story) in the resonance of Kurt with Eros (Cupid's Greek counterpart/predecessor/analogue) in this part. Eros, in the Greek take on things, is one of the primordial Gods, and he's no cutesy diapered renaissance cherub, he is Human Desire and sexual power, born of Darkness and Night. He mates with Chaos, within the Abyss, to produce humanity. This is just wikipedia level stuff, but it's not irrelevant. I believe in symbolic resonance.
Psyche is also winged, once she gains immortality (the girl is a BAMF--I mean, she travels into and out of Hades on her own); she is depicted with butterfly wings. Psyche is both the Greek word for butterfly* and the human mind.
So, the marriage of desire & mind is kind of a potent thing. With wings.
*I won't blather on about butterfly symbolism too much here, but there is so much with butterflies, not just metamorphosis, but also stuff like healing grief and keeping/transporting secrets and the love of young men and marital bliss and death & resurrection and apparently I am rambling.