Gods & Moon-Stars - Moon Knight part 6 | Marvelous Demystifiers ep. 10
For the grand finale of our massive Moon Knight series, the web-heads take a crack at the codes contained in the final episode, "Gods & Monsters."
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In this episode
Core themes
Hands, the Manes, and speaking with the dead
One of the hosts opened by saying that hands replaced the mirrors of the earlier episodes as the finale's dominant image. When Taweret spoke to Layla through dead bodies that waved their hands, Gordy described the scene as a golem or possession idea built on the straw man. One of the hosts then linked the Latin manus, meaning hand, to the Manes, the chthonic spirits of the dead, and read St. Augustine's City of God, book nine, chapter 11, which that host said called human souls demons, along with a passage from Dylan Saccoccio's book on Mercury guiding the Manes.
The Ushabti as answerer and straw man
The hosts spent time on the ushabti, which one of them said meant answerer in Egyptian, and called it a clay version of the legal straw man. One host suggested priests promoted the figures as burial laborers. Another host retold a story of Abraham smashing idols and leaving a stick in the largest one's hand, then compared it to demanding that the state answer questions in court. Later, one host read Harrow's demand that officers show their souls instead of papers as a living man versus paper person jurisdiction.
Anagrams, 1667, and London full circle
One of the hosts shared an anagram of Harrow's first words, built around the ibis of Thoth visible behind him, and argued that the leftover initials MSSG came to 1667 in septenary. That host tied the year to the London fires and the start of birth certification. The other hosts responded with praise, and one host said the anagram set the theme of a new program arriving, with Knights Templar, hospitals and pre-crime to follow. Near the end, a host returned to London, calling the closing skyline shot a full circle.
Judging people before sins and the WHO
Gabe said early that the finale carried a theme of pre-crime tied to the medical industrial complex. At the climax he showed a World Health Organization graphic on intrinsic capacity and argued that it overlapped with the film's judging of people before their sins, comparing it to Minority Report. He then showed a map of red flag laws, flipping ERP into PRE, and argued that hospitals sat in foreign trade zones under a Knights Templar style red cross, a point he said had recently been brought to his attention.
Zodiac and Saturn readings of the battle
During the final fight the hosts read the combatants as sky clock opposites. One host described Harrow descending as Capricorn while Marc, as Moon Knight, ascended as Cancer, and the gods Khonshu and Ammit were then slotted in as Cancer and Capricorn too. Another host placed Marc as Aries and Harrow as Libra because of his tattoo, so that all four cardinal points appeared. One host said Saturn losing to the moon matched Saturnian cosmology, and noted that Khonshu moved quickly while Ammit moved slowly. One host also mapped the story onto Osiris, Horus, Isis and Set, with Marc as Osiris resurrected as Horus and Layla as Isis.
Quotes
“Since there are six episodes of it, this is the final. We've actually done more than half of our entire Marvelous Demystifiers just on this one thing. So as exciting as it is to be here at the finish line for this one, I'm also really excited for what will come next to move on to some different subject matter.”
“Maybe not a lot we need to say about it other than they're comparing water to a highway and to time. And our conversation last night had to do with like, is the flow of electricity related to the flow of time? Is the flow of rivers related to the flow of electricity? All of that.”
“I'm seeing six people on our left, five people on our right. And that's kind of a standard Masonic tracing board. You look at the shape of the bricks and you got your checkered pattern. The checkered pattern is always the point of exchange. It's a good way to think about that.”
“So I mentioned that I could probably find something about the secret passageway in the Great Pyramid and then I happened to just bibliomancy open to the right page. I'm not even kidding. I just opened to the page about the Great Pyramid secret chambers.”
“I see a lot of symbolism around like the turning of the age or, you know, the handing off of power mantles, you know, who was in charge. Now there's a new boss in town and then there's a boss battle at the end.”
“But I see a connection with being laid out with the medical industrial mafioso complex and what it is probably foretelling in regards to pre-crime. And that is a theme that we got into early in the series, you know, talking about Ammit judging people before they even commit the sin. And it culminates in a major way at the climax here when the boss battle goes down.”
“And so we have iconoclasm going on. Ethan Hawke kills all these eagles in one foul swoop. So this is kind of playing into what I was saying about the changing of the guard and people in the know that read heraldry, they're signaling to one another in a very interesting fashion here.”
“And you overlap it with all the possibilities that the notes and themes of pre-crime that we're seeing in this film, you overlap the two and, I mean, we are looking at Minority Report being enforced by the WHO, by the anonymity, the nameless one, WHO. They're called the WHO. You don't know who's doing this to you.”
“So then I pull up a graphic from the red flag laws in the United States. They call this emergency risk protection orders, ERP. Well, you flip that around and you get PRE. It's pre-crime. It's already up and running, these red flag laws. They're already up in 17 states here. I'm pretty sure it's way more than that at this point.”
“It seems like you're doing a lot of things and like you're doing nothing. And then you realize, oh, maybe I did some things, like you accidentally found out you did some things along the way here. You know, take the little things, make up the big things.”
“That's in the owl tree. So where all the babies were raised and everything, the babies have still been coming back since last week or so. But today, no owls, but there was a bobcat kit in their tree just staring at me like he stumbled into a party he wasn't invited to or something.”
“Destroy the straw man. Which is interesting because she's telling her that by inhabiting a dead body. Like, if that's not a golem kind of idea or possession idea of using a straw man, like, I mean, that's what that is.”
Gabriel, known on air as Slick Dissident, co-hosts InnerVerse's Vibe Rant show and is a longtime recurring guest on the podcast. He teaches occult symbolism and tarot on his YouTube channel, ranging across the Major Arcana, the esoteric Enneagram, mythology and archetype, mystic linguistics, and the symbolism hidden in popular film. He is best known for Tarot-tories, his own system mapping the 22 Major Arcana and zodiac archetypes onto the geography of the United States.
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