Sherlock the Christ Figure & Mary - (The) Madonna or ?This has been brewing for awhile, but S4 m
Sherlock the Christ Figure & Mary - (The) Madonna or ?This has been brewing for awhile, but S4 made a perfect way to contemplate my issues with the scene above. MADONNA is plastered across John’s head, and perhaps it is the entertainer. You know, the 80′s - ? gay icon, that these days sometimes gets censured, because she may/may not have used homosexuality as a means of making money. She still participates in events to support the LGBTQA+ community, even at major awards shows. That said…Sherlock is of the age to know about this phenomenon, and he knows about hair product, underwear worn by gay men, etc, so how is that he doesn’t know who she is? From a previous meta about Two Kinds (heart/brain, leather/vinyl *coughs*, and real/fake): Or does he, and he was lying in the Stag Night scene? They never showed us the gay club scene that supposedly filmed, and I’ve often wondered if Madonna ended up in the trackings for this scene. As Sherlock has traditionally been a Christ figure, even been through physical torture…What do we make of Mary? She stole her identity from a stillborn child of 1972, the same year Gay News became a publication in Great Britain, the same year Mycroft mentions in TRF the Diogenes Club members don’t want a repeat of, because it would upset the “tea trolley”. From ACD’s canon The Greek Interpreter: “The Diogenes Club is the queerest club in London, and Mycroft one of the queerest men.” She ends up dying at the end of T6T, an episode where Craig mentions to Sherlock that “Time is a great leveller, innit?” Of course, there is the Mary Magdalene possibility, who btw was not a prostitute (that’s not even in the canonical Gospels, and didn’t became an idea until the Middle Ages). Like Mary, she came from another place, and became attached to the concept of a repentant. She also had associations with perfume, albeit of course, not the type they made up for Mary in HLV, which was then carried over into TAB as the way John should have recognized her. (I won’t go into how we barely had enough time to get over the scent of her perfume in the air when she shot Sherlock, before we were supposed to embrace her as a mother figure–another Mary–especially since Rosie is a Sherlock mirror/inner child, born in an unorthodox location, which he hands as his future and life over to John at the heteronormative idyllic ending of TFP).Then too, Mary Magdalene supposedly had seven devils/demons cast out of her, and who are the people Mary has been mirroring? Irene, Moriarty, Kitty Riley, Ian from Janus Cars, Magnussen, possibly Mycroft, and once Mary dies–we have Eurus rise from her ashes, “your demons have been waiting for a very long time”. A bit of Mary information for those that are interested in the gnostic aspects of her figure (Magdalene and Mother of Christ): a pre-Christian sect of Mary worshippers known as the Collyridians baked honey cakes to be consumed with milk or wine for their version of a sacred meal, because honey and bees were sacred to her. Prior to Christianity becaming a more concrete religion, Mary derived some of her characteristics from Isis, Venus, and Aphrodite, who also all had the honey and bee association. Mummy Holmes and Mary are both shown with stars as symbols in their homes and jewelry, and this is also a symbol used by the previous deities. Then there are the associations with water, and procreation. Something to think about… @monikakrasnorada @mrskolesouniverse @smoljohnlock Other related meta:Mary is KITTY Riley ( x ) & Molly ( x ) & Ian from Janus Cars ( x )Irene Adler in TLD - Another Source for Mary (Inc info on the horrible morgue scene as Sherlock’s memory of being beaten.) ( x ) -- source link