The Glorified Heroes sometimes descend to Earth, though. David Bowie wasn't a God nor was he a Daemon. The Immortal Gods rarely if ever visit Earth. The Terrestrial Daemons are the souls of the deceased who inhabit near-Space. Ziggy has gone home to Mars, "jamming good with Weird and Gillie." Hierocles (student of Plutarch) taught three orders of superhuman beings: the Immortal Gods, the Glorified Heroes, and the Terrestrial Daemons. in 1999 (the great jazz composer and saxophonist Wayne Shorter was so honored that year too). In the "Lazarus" video ( Blackstar, 2016) Bowie has gone back into the closet, as it were (or at least the wardrobe), re-emerging (in the "Blackstar" video) on a world where the jewel-encrusted skull of the astronaut (Major Tom?) is lovingly preserved and worshipped by the women of that world as a relic of whom? Bowie has left the Magick Theatre he has exited this Cave of Shadows. Berkelee School of Music honored Bowie with a Ph.D. Let us remember David Bowie for his music and his lyrics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press) (from Proteus, the sea god who, in Greek myth, could change his shape at will). David Bowie was the Protean Self (Robert Jay Lifton The Protean Self: Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation. Bowie will be remembered for his Androgyny, for his pagan religious sensibilities, and for his fluid sense of personality. the highest and most desirable degree of the process of transmutation-totality" ( Paracelsus: Selected Writings New York: Pantheon Books, 331). In alchemy the Androgyne is the Rebis, the goal of the alchemical process which, according to Paracelsus (1493-1541), "in its unity, that is to say, by combining the two antitheses, the male and the female principle. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 352, 461). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 100). Mythologically, the Androgyne represents the coincidentia oppositorum, the convergence of opposites that to theologian Nicholas of Cusa (1401-64) represented the least imperfect definition of God (Eliade, ibid., 80-81). Ritual androgynization is a frequent element of shamanic traditions worldwide, the Shaman uniting in his/her ritual persona the male/female principles (see, for example: Mircea Eliade Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. Androgyny, historian of religions Mircea Eliade wrote, "in antiquity represented an ideal condition which men endeavored to achieve spiritually by means of imitative rites" (Mircea Eliade The Two and the One. Mythologically and psychologically, analytical psychologist June Singer notes, the archetype of Androgyny is second only to the archetype of the Absolute, which to Singer is unknowable (June Singer Androgyny: Toward a New Theory of Sexuality. Bowie's Androgyny (and the archetype of Androgyny in general) should not be interpreted literally in simple sexual terms. David Bowie and the personae he created were certainly that. Liminal entitites are neither here nor there they are betwixt and between" (Victor Turner The Ritual Process. "The attributes of liminality" (from līmen, threshold), anthropologist Victor Turner writes, "or of liminal personae ('threshold people') are necessarily (italics added) ambiguous. Bowie will be remembered for the ambiguous sexuality that was central to various of the personae he created over the years since the release of his first album- David Bowie (Deram Records)-in 1967.
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Bowie will be remembered for his movie roles as well: the vampire John Blaylock in Tony Scott's (1983) movie adaptation of Whitley Strieber's (1981) novel, The Hunger, the space alien Thomas Jerome Newton in Nicholas Roeg's (1976) The Man Who Fell to Earth, and British POW Jack Celliers in Nagisa Ôshima's (1983) Merry Christmas Mr. Bowie will forever be Ziggy Stardust, the Thin White Duke, and Aladdin Sane. Marcel Marceau will be remembered as Bip the Clown Jean-Louis Barrault will always be Baptiste (Barrault's character in Marcel Carné's 1945 Les Enfant du Paradis).
I think we, the audience perhaps thought/wanted to think Bowie actually was the personae he will be remembered for. He will also be remembered for the personae he created to deliver that music. Bowie will be remembered for his evocative, often poignant music and lyrics.
Bowie studied acting and mime with the great French actor, mime artist, and teacher Etienne Decroux (1898–1991), who was also Marcel Marceau and Jean-Louis Barrault's teacher.
The public thinks of Bowie as a rocker he was also an actor and a mime. David Bowie (1947-2016) will be remembered for his music and his acting.
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