Braid – The Modern Myth
Yes, this makes clear sense as its own Story Thread.
This thread tracks the role of comic books (and adjacent modern myth: fables, fantasy, mystery-school media) as a primary transmission medium for the “codes of consciousness” beneath surface perception.
Core claims / functions:
– Comics as the modern mystery-school: archetypes, siddhic potentials, and the remembrance of a Golden Age of power
– Identification as a “mutant” / extranormal being: using superhero and wizard frameworks to name rare perception + extraplanar origins
– Devotion to the Goddesses of Story / Song / Dance (Story as a living divinity): comics as altar, scripture, and training ground
– Cultural bridge: why people can recognize themselves through Jedi, superheroes, Harry Potter, immortality myths, Promethea, etc.
System linkages:
– Reference the Story Influences database as evidence + source-citations for the imprinting media
– Use this thread to connect specific influences to: kairos moments, character-archetypes, powers, aka, and the evolution of identity
Potential sub-threads / clusters:
– Promethea / Alan Moore lineage (magic + meta-myth)
– Jedi/Djedi (discipline + force perception)
– Superhero mutation (powers as metaphor and remembrance)
– Fairy tales / fables as archetypal compressions
Relations to weave:
– Book Chapters: Mythos, Aka, Great Story, Story as Divinity, Siddhi, Mystery Schools
– Soil Chapters: episodes where a comic explicitly shifted the compass, gave language, or revealed a pattern
– Topics: Comics, Story Influences, Superheroes, Jedi, Harry Potter, Promethea, Mystery schools, Siddhi, Identity
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EPISODE ANCHORS (from Mythos Braids Notes, July 2026):
• 1996’s “Citizen York” — reading Grant Morrison’s Animal Man while living in New York City and experimenting with direct experience of telekinesis and telepathy. The recognition that Morrison’s meta-narrative (the character discovering the author) was another way of seeing ourselves as characters in our own story. Alongside it, Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing — the Green and the Red as primal energies — read as the modern-myth comic-book expression of the deeper intuitive understanding that we are all part of the planet and made of its elements, coming through the modern glyph-makers.
• 2005’s “The Life Equation” — inspired by Jack Kirby’s New Gods (the Life Equation as counter to Anti-Life) and by Grant Morrison’s Seven Soldiers: the scene where Zatanna reaches up through the panels — and Peter touches the panels and shares his energy with her, knowing her as a living being reaching out of the comics. In their world he is like a Thunderbolt — Johnny Thunder of the Justice Society saying the word, clicking the pen, the genie made of lightning arriving. Self-recognition through the lightning-being of the modern pantheon.
Morrison’s meta-narrative project is adjacent to the Mythica’s own: story magic as understanding yourself as a character in story. The comics were not escapism — they were the mystery-school texts of the Age of Delirium, and these two episodes are the braid’s clearest proof-points of transmission becoming lived practice. Cross-links: Braid – Anti-Life / The Hollowing (the Kirby counter-pole), The Lightning Gift (the actual lightning consecration), Building the Mythica — Hypersigil.
Constellation: The Root — Devotion to Story