Alien gosd in the new epics: Noah remythologised through the ancient astronaut hypothesis in Abel's Montagut's "La gesta d'Utnoa"

  • Mariano Martín Rodríguez Centrul de Cercetări Literare şi Enciclopedice, Universitatea "Babeş-Bolyai", Cluj-Napoca
Keywords: Mythology, theory of the ancient astronauts, epics, science fiction, Abel Montagut.

Abstract

Modern scientific world-view has undermined traditional myths, the functional survival of which seems to depend today in the West on a positivist justification. This would place them in the field of real History, through their study and revitalization by pseudoscientific disciplines such as the Atlantis and the ancient astronaut hypotheses. These have inspired new epic poems in (regular) verse that combine classic and/or biblical myths with a (pseudo)scientific modern world-view. For example, the critical rewriting of Noah’s myth by using the ancient astronaut hypothesis as a fictional device to produce a contemporary kind of plausibility allowed Abel Montagut to renew epic poetry, updating it also by adopting science fiction chronotopes in order to structure his fictional construction and to generate a high ethical sense for our time. Thus, his Poemo de Utnoa (1993) / La gesta d’Utnoa (1996), which has become a major classic of the literature in Esperanto thanks to its original version in this language, is a landmark of both science fiction and neo-biblical epics. This poem is written from a secular and purely literary perspective.

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Published
2015-06-22
How to Cite
Martín Rodríguez M. (2015). Alien gosd in the new epics: Noah remythologised through the ancient astronaut hypothesis in Abel’s Montagut’s "La gesta d’Utnoa". Amaltea. Revista de mitocrítica, 7, 57-86. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_AMAL.2015.v7.47672
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Articles | Miscellany