Knowles on the Star Wars ‘Symbol Cycle’

The Secret Sun’s Chris Knowles wrote a mythological/symbological anaylsis of the Star Wars “cycle.” It’s pretty interesting from both a Star Wars fan – although I still can’t take the latter-day (I-III) trilogy seriously — and a mythological p.o.v. This is a taste; get the full essay, with some video illustrations, at the link below.

In the first-released Star Wars, we meet a Horus/Jesus analog (Luke Skywalker), an Osiris/Jesus who becomes a Set/Satan (Darth Vader), an Isis/Hathor/Mary amalgam in Princess Leia (who has Hthor’s warrior spirit), an Osiris/John the Baptist (Obi-Wan Kenobi), two Thoths in the droids C3PO and R2D2 (note similarity of the word ‘Droids’ to ‘Druids’) and an Anubis, split into the figures of Han Solo and Chewbacca (as Anubis the canine figure).

via The Secret Sun: Son of the Suns: The Star Wars Symbol Cycle.