Submitter’s note: This is part 60 in the “Through the Rabbi Hole” series, which was originally a riff on the Disney Version of Alice in Wonderland, but now… let’s just say that we’re well past “off the rails”.
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Panel 1: Tour bus in graveyard full of greco-roman statuary. “And here, the graveyard of the White Gods”
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I will admit, out of context, the "No way" "Yah weh" joke got a little chuckle out of me. It's not the best, but I'm always a sucker for wordplay/puns.
The rest of it, no. A Greek/Roman-esque looking statue (of Athena/Minerva?), a winged man (Icarus? Not in any way/shape/form a god. Nor are Christian angels), and crosses? First, a lot of Neo-Nazi/White Power racists don't really consider Greeks or Italians "white" so why would that be in there? Second, ignoring the winged person I can't place, Christianity as a DEAD religion? I mean sure Jesus "died" but he got better. And while a bit in decline, it's certainly still got a huge amount of followers. Compared to something like the Celtic or Norse pantheons where they might have some worshippers, it's not a major religion.
So everything about the joke fails at being coherent. And I do like how lazy the artist is, not drawing the weird mutant Jewish person in the first panel even though, presumably, they are the person speaking in it.
@Tilver #203322
That would be Hermes, most likely, or one of the old religions of the Celtic or surrounding tradition. “Winged Guy” is hardly a Christian idea - and in fact it is not how Angels are depicted at all.
This seems to indicate that Tatsuya Ishida belongs to the really, really esoteric, weird branch of Nazism. Essentially, going off of the Yah Weh thing, they believe that Christianity hijacked Aryan power and the ancestral white Gods, demonizing them and forcing the White Man into service to a Jewish God who insists they’ve committed some original sin they need to feel bad about millennia later.
There was a sect of the Nazis who wanted to return to the original more Pagan belief, which I think had its home in Himmler’s SS loyalists and I think the exact home for the belief involved Burgundy. Always a good sign when someone falls into the Nazi Branch best known for being kooky even by their standards.
@Niam2020 #203324
Hermes has the winged sandals, not giant wings on his back, it being him doesn't make much sense. And he's too tall/man shaped for say, Eros/Cupid. He's usually more younger. Granted he wasn't always shown that way, but if you wanted someone to know who it was, you'd make them in their more recognized form. Which is also why I didn't suggest the Anemoi, because most people wouldn't think of them.
As for the Celtic gods, unless it's some far more obscure deity, none of the ones I've read of/seen have those giant back wings. And, sure, angels in the Bible aren't really depicted as winged dudes, you draw a winges glowy person, people know what you mean. Which is why it's kinda baffling that he drew such a nothing character.
For a good visual joke you want people to know what you're referring too. So even though Vikings didn't wear horned helmets, you get that conical helm with the nose bit and horns, people "know" you drew a Viking. If you're drawing a joke about dead white gods, you'd at least want every one included to be recognizable. It's not like they aren't often visually distinctive.
Cupid? He’s often portrayed with wings. But he’s one of the gods lingering on under new management for Valentines Day…
But, yeah, it’s amusing how Mediterranean types are so subhuman when it comes to jobs and civil rights, but pure white when it coems to ‘cradle of civilization.’
Confused?
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