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Sep. 28th, 2007 08:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
retro_eidasAs I was amongst those that watched the newest ATLA on TurboNick, my reaction is below and don't have much to add, but Combustion Man's metal leg? Armor or ATLA-verse answer to cyborg? I suppose you can't go wrong with an EVOL robotic/clockwork menace with a fire fetish. I also could swear I've seen that symbol on his head before. In Myths of Light maybe? I'm certain it will keep bugging me until I remember where. *sighs* Random, but mark was on Combustion Man's brow, iow, the Brow or Ajna Chakra. Also referred to as the "Third-Eye Chakra" (Combustion Man's tattoo looks like a sideways eye). From the first link:
Also from the link (and possibly paralleling/tying to Zuko's "I think I'm losing my mind" dilemma. Zuko's hiring of Combustion Man as the result and/or extension of Zuko's particular "inner turmoil"? [/bullshitting]):
Perhaps there's something there, perhaps there's nothing. It's anyone's guess.
The Painted Lady? *intrigued*
When I first heard about her via spoilage, I thought she might Suki in disguise, but that didn't look like Suki at all and this girl (or guy? Kabuki, anyone?) is a (water?)bender. I'm at a loss for guesses at an identity. However, browsing around the spoiler theories at DH, someone suggested Ursa. Now *that* would make me pick my jaw up from the floor.
Identified by Yoga as 'the seat of the Soul,' the famous Third-Eye Chakra (or energy-center) is located in the center of the FOREHEAD or brow; and is associated with SPIRITUAL TRUTH. Anytime one must resolve issues of what IS true on an absolute or philosophic level, this Chakra may become 'stressed,' leading to pain, abnormalities of hearing, vision and/or psychic phenomena.
The Psychic Plane of Asian Metaphysics connects to the body via this Chakra, and within it "dwells" THE SOUL.. identified by the ancient Egyptians as "Ba" which means 'sublime' or 'noble' and which was pictured as a human-headed Hawk (which symbolically explains this to be the part of Self which 'flies' through our lives, evolving as we progress through time.)
Also from the link (and possibly paralleling/tying to Zuko's "I think I'm losing my mind" dilemma. Zuko's hiring of Combustion Man as the result and/or extension of Zuko's particular "inner turmoil"? [/bullshitting]):
CHAOTIC DREAMS AND INNER TURMOIL:
This least-problematic yet still distressing level of Psychic Disturbance is simply the Opening Of The Third Eye Chakra, long understood by the Metaphysical Philosophies of the world. Dreams are the mind's BRIDGE between the two halves of our Reality (the Physical and Metaphysical worlds;) and any major change in one's Dream-life indicates a new level of ACCESS to that Other Half of the mind (the Right, Clairvoyant-Intuitive Lobe of the brain.) In-depth DREAM-ANALYSIS on a daily basis, along with a deliberate program of Mystical Development (such as Yogic or Kaballist training) is really the only lasting solution.. for the mind can not cease seeing what is REALLY THERE; all we can do is help it UNDERSTAND what it is seeing. In time, such training can turn such chaotic, confusing inner symbolic events into a clear channel of Metaphysical Insight.
Perhaps there's something there, perhaps there's nothing. It's anyone's guess.
The Painted Lady? *intrigued*
When I first heard about her via spoilage, I thought she might Suki in disguise, but that didn't look like Suki at all and this girl (or guy? Kabuki, anyone?) is a (water?)bender. I'm at a loss for guesses at an identity. However, browsing around the spoiler theories at DH, someone suggested Ursa. Now *that* would make me pick my jaw up from the floor.
