Eradicator wrote:Ok, I just picked up the Transformers Ultimate Guide updated version from B&N. It is one AWSOME book. The artwork s superb, IMO.
I read the Primus and Unicron origins, and my own version is gonna go like this:
Before the dawn of time, order and chaod perfectly existed in an extradimensional entity known as the One (I, embarrisingly, do not know what the One is with this explanation. Clarification?). He was curious at the sigt of the new multiverse, and so created twin heralds to rule: Primus and Unicron. From the Astral Plane (what is this?), Primus led his brother inside 2 hollow metal asteroids. (metal? WTF?). In time, they shaped their prisons into metal planets, able to transform back into resemblances from their forms in the 'astral plane'. They each created bodies (planets) for themselves in each universe. Primus created duplicated of his spark, and placed them in each body across the universe. Unicron did not. He kept his own spark, but if he was destroyed, his spark would be flung to another body he created in another universe.'
Probably gonna edit this based upon if this would make sense in canon material. I really hated the idea of the 'One' creating Unicron then creating Primus from him. Wouldn't that mean Primus would be evil, too? So wuld this fit with canon material?
The One is a curious amalgamation of Chaos and Light to appease monotheists, godniks and jebus freaks and anyone else offended by Manichean duality. In my humble opinion The One is just a ruse to try to dupe Primus and make Unicron feel better.
Before that great ret-con there were others, and a time wherein which Elder (Chaos) Gods ruled and a being so big he sat outside time. but that reeks of Lovecraft and the relgious right don't like that like they don't like heavy metal, roleplay games and smut.
http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Category:GodsMmm hmm.
Astral plane:
Some equivalent concepts to the astral plane in various esoteric teachings are the Barzakh or Imaginal or Inter-world in Islamic Esotericism (Ishraqism, Sufism, etc), the World of Asiyah in Lurianic Kabbalah (although this sometimes includes the physical plane as well), or Yetzirah in some interpretations of Hermetic Kabbalah, the "spirit world" in Spiritualism, the "Nervous" State in Max Theon's teachings, and the "Vital" World in the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo and Mirra Alfassa.
In his book Autobiography of a Yogi, Sri Sri Paramhansa Yogananda characterizes the difference between the physical, astral, and causal planes, as per traditional Hindu philosophy. In this conception, when one dies the soul moves to the astral plane. There the result of past actions or karma is reaped.
The term "astral plane" has also more recently come to mean a plane of existence where otherkin believe their souls reside.
The word "astral" (like celestial) means of or like the stars and is used in reference to the astral plane because astral matter does not require a light source to make it visible -astral matter gives off its own light, like stars do.
Metal:
metal (sometimes referred to simply as metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s.[1] With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, heavy, guitar-and-drums-centered sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion and fast guitar solos. The All Music Guide states that "of all rock & roll's myriad forms, heavy metal is the most extreme in terms of volume, machismo, and theatricality."
Thus ends this lesson of Primus.
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