Ancient Themes in Thundercats

[Fruiteloop]

Think of HeMan and Conan The Barbarian.

These were or are ancient themes like the valkyries and Valhalla.

Thundercats was made in the 1980s when masculinity was very important as how it was portrayed the way it was on American TV.

Liono the leader has a sword which has the eye of thundera. This looks like a viking sword.

Their planet is blown up and they travel in space to third earth as a clan. They have a home base / looks like a temple like architecture.

The spaceship they press buttons and enter math calculations into the computer to make a trajectory towards third earth. They get put in hibernation chambers.

Since it took great amounts of intelligence to make swords thundercats are big creatures over 6 feet tall. You heat and fold the metal powder.

Also because they are intelligent they can pilot and create spaceships in the first place.

In a society of big tall muscular intelligent cats you need less of an economy the way we have today. Everything is handcrafted like swords and spacecraft.

This makes things into what is known as an honor culture. Such as in Japan with the Samurai and the Warrior race of Klingons in Star Trek.

So everyone has to pull their own weight so to speak. This is adapted from Scandinavian ancient times into thundercats as a heroic archetype.

By working together they fight against dark forces to try and rebuild their planet later on to go home.

The creators of thundercats must have known about these themes because they are shown to the public audience of kids.

ThunderCats Intro (1985)

 

[Wyote]

One of the first swords I ever owned was this bad boy

 

[meowzician]

Think of HeMan and Conan The Barbarian.

These were or are ancient themes like the valkyries and Valhalla.

Thundercats was made in the 1980s when masculinity was very important as how it was portrayed the way it was on American TV.

Liono the leader has a sword which has the eye of thundera. This looks like a viking sword.

Their planet is blown up and they travel in space to third earth as a clan. They have a home base / looks like a temple like architecture.

The spaceship they press buttons and enter math calculations into the computer to make a trajectory towards third earth. They get put in hibernation chambers.

Since it took great amounts of intelligence to make swords thundercats are big creatures over 6 feet tall. You heat and fold the metal powder.

Also because they are intelligent they can pilot and create spaceships in the first place.

In a society of big tall muscular intelligent cats you need less of an economy the way we have today. Everything is handcrafted like swords and spacecraft.

This makes things into what is known as an honor culture. Such as in Japan with the Samurai and the Warrior race of Klingons in Star Trek.

So everyone has to pull their own weight so to speak. This is adapted from Scandinavian ancient times into thundercats as a heroic archetype.

By working together they fight against dark forces to try and rebuild their planet later on to go home.

The creators of thundercats must have known about these themes because they are shown to the public audience of kids.

ThunderCats Intro (1985)

Did you know that Honor Culture is associated with Pastoralist Cultures and that an individual is very likely to be raised in an honor culture even a thousand years later? That blows my mind that things my ancestors did a thousand years ago would still effect me today.

Dr. Robert Sapolsky discusses this idea in Behave and in his Stanford lectures on human behavioral biology. He specifically notes that remnants of pastoral honor culture can persist long after people stop herding, citing examples such as the American South, where historians and social scientists have linked the region's culture of honor in part to its settlement by Scots Irish herders.

 

[Fruiteloop]

Did you know that Honor Culture is associated with Pastoralist Cultures and that an individual is very likely to be raised in an honor culture even a thousand years later? That blows my mind that things my ancestors did a thousand years ago would still effect me today.

Dr. Robert Sapolsky discusses this idea in Behave and in his Stanford lectures on human behavioral biology. He specifically notes that remnants of pastoral honor culture can persist long after people stop herding, citing examples such as the American South, where historians and social scientists have linked the region's culture of honor in part to its settlement by Scots Irish herders.

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