I believe he only mentioned it once, saying that Jack was inspired by Kabbalah when he wrote the Source. I don't know of any other instance than that one.
I see, although this is him describing Supergods, his personal book, not anything he worked on for DC or DC's cosmology. Thank you for sharing, however.But this scan in particular is what I am referring to:
He mentions it in the comics a lot too but I don’t really think solely mentioning it is the most important part. What I find more important is that Grant seems to largely structures the cosmic scale of things around a Kabbalah system. And this makes it so you have to be familiar with the ideas he’s getting at in his stories before trying to fully understand them.He mentions it several times when talking about the Source and Jack Kirby.
But this scan in particular is what I am referring to:
This is sort of a misapplication of what Grant is attempting to do. Grant also explicitly described the map as being based on Buddhism as well. No one single source takes the reins in Grants comics, he weaves in basically everything he can think of in different ways, so trying to understand/examine them from a single theological source will lead you to erroneous conclusions.
That quote is in NHT's post, but he wasn't talking about the map. He's referring to his book, Supergods.
Huh? I’m not supporting the idea that Grants comic should be only looked at from one lens so why are you even typing this to me?
Yeah I already realized that, hence why I edited out of my comment what you’re replying to here.
Because you described it as a "Kabbalah system" when it's equally a "buddhist system" and "superstring theory" system and many others.
No, I said the cosmic scale was “largely structured around” a Kabbalah system, which is not the same as saying the cosmic scale is only a Kabbalah system involving nothing else, like what you’ve interpreted.
Of course they have. It's just crucial that they were inspired by many things other than Kabbalism. He brings up Buddhism a lot more often than Kabbalah.
He said two times that Kirby's perspective on it was rooted in Kabbalism and the Ain Soph Aur, but it was always about Kirby, not his own affirmation. I'm not sure where he's ever said his idea of the Source is supposed to "respect" Kirby's belief. I mean, I'm sure he respects Kirby a great deal, but it is doubtless that he put his own spin on things and didn't shackle himself to what Kirby thought.
My apologies if I misinterpreted the situation. I just had the impression that new members had come here to our community mainly just to relentlessly spam a single issue until they got their way, which severely detracted from everything else regarding this verse, and required massive amounts of time to deal with.
A discussion rule might be a good idea at this point, yes. Let Elizio33 and all of his collaborators take their time to investigate proper scaling for the DC Comics cosmology in private instead.
What? The vast majority of the verse is not cosmology related, I'm not proposing a blocking of Batman upgrades or other DC matters, just limiting the cosmology upgrade threads to those who obtain staff approval ahead of time. That's not "the verse as a whole."
We will get upgrades to the verse anyway thanks to Elizio33 and his collaborators. We just need a discussion rule against using previously rejected arguments or new members posting upgrade attempts, or somesuch, because this has turned unmanageable.
Very good
Can you give me one more chance on my thread?Yes, that is far more than enough evidence to add a strict discussion rule that gives you the authority to quickly close them.
I'd like to take some time to reword it. I'll comment later.
I have a good suggestion, how about dividing the cosmology based on the omniverse? perpetua one of the hands is the first creator and the other hand is also assigned the same as perpetua. Especially with the existence of an infinite multiverse that is separate from the perpetua multiverse. In the Overvoid there is an infinite multiverses
Seems okay.
But it is fine to upgrade it if you, for example, first present your evidence to Elizio33 and Emirp sumitpo. We simply cannot deal with the sheer current amount of relentless spammy upgrade threads.
