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Monsters in Our Midst They’re pretty much everywhere…

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Monsters in Our Midst. They’re pretty much everywhere…. From around the globe . . . . Indonesia. Central Asia. Australian Amorodo : flies around at night and sucks out your insides. Mexico (ca. 1570). Burma. Sphinx of Giza. Northwestern Native American (frog monster). - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Monsters in Our Midst

Monsters in

Our MidstThey’re pretty much

everywhere…

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From

aro

und

the

glob

e . .

.

Indonesia

Central Asia

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Burma

Mexico (ca. 1570)

Australian Amorodo: flies around at night and sucks out your insides

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Northwestern Native

American (frog

monster)

Coatlicue, Aztec woman with a skirt of snakes and a necklace of hearts torn from her victims

Sphinx of Giza

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Hum

baba

(Sum

eria

n)

Kalonoro, Africa

Oseberg ship burial, Norway

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From

m

ytho

logy

…Paul Rubens, The Head of Medusa (1615)

Wendigo, Algonquian mythology

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From the depths

of the sea…

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To philosophy…

Aristotle, Hierarchical scale of the Great Chain of Being (left) extended by religions (right)

Polemical allegory of Arminianism as a five-headed monster (1618)

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But there’s always a human element…

Kaspar Lavater (1704-1801), The evolution of a frog to the Greek God Apollo.

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And size

matters…

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Monster Truck…

(Grave Digger)

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Mons

ter l

imo…

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The power of

advertising…

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Popular culture…

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…equals popular fear…

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Nam

e th

at

mon

ster

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Name that monster…

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Nam

e th

at

mon

ster

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Name that monster…

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Make the unfamiliar less frightening

through familiarity…

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Beca

use

they

’re

cool

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And

yet s

till

scar

y in

lots

of

ways

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Always playing on the unknown…

Iceland

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Norse mythology map

Map of Skyrim

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In the realm of

the believable…

Argentinian version

Lake Champlain version

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But really monsters are

the creations of our

own fears…

We see what we want to see.

“Monsters aren’t under the bed—they’re inside of

your head”