Monsters and gohsts Vs. Deitys and gods.

Pictures all from Scooby Doo.

Isn't it odd that as a whole, the human race that is, we find the scariest 'monsters' those that are the most human like. I think i mentioned this before when I was talking about Nosferatu, since then I have asked some other people what they think and almost everyone agreed that it is the Human-ness of him and other monsters that scare us. I makes me think of a recurring dream I had, between the ages of four and nine. It was more of a nightmare, nothing special, but it has just dawned on me that it comprised of four different, conventional, types of monster, all very human-like in form. Strangely i remember it really clearly, there was a vampire, werewolf, mummy monster and a ghost, that would all come up the stairs to my room, I would always know they were coming but could never move, sometimes I would be able to run but they would always catch me other times i would hide under the covers,most of the time they would find me, but occasionally they wouldn't notice me hiding.

"This print shows a lecherous monster said to have haunted the home of a master carpenter in the Kanda area of Tokyo. The apparition habitually showed up late at night to perform unspeakable acts on his sleeping wife, until the family enlisted the help of prayer-chanting priests to cleanse their home. In the Meiji era, recurring nightmares about this sort of monster were apparently quite common." From pinktentacle.com

Around the world, figures that are almost human but not quite are seen as other worldly. Even people with disfigurements. They used to be shoved in freak shows and circuses, because people were either scared of them or looked on in aw. Now in some parts of the world, if a child is born with disfigurements, they are seen as reincarnations of gods. Across continents and cultures, such figures can also been seen as Gods and Deities. From european christianity, with the holy trinity, emaculet conseption and resurection to the hindu deities, Lord Ganesha, with the head of an elephant and Lord Krishna, depicted with blue skin.