zom·bie noun/ˈzämbē/
zom·bie
noun /ˈzämbē/
zombies, plural1. Originally, a snake-deity of or deriving from West Africa and Haiti. 2. A soulless corpse said to be revived by witchcraft, esp. in certain African and Caribbean religions. 3. A person who is or appears lifeless, apathetic, or completely unresponsive to their surroundings. 4. A computer controlled by a hacker without the owner's knowledge, which is made to send large quantities of data to a website, making it inaccessible to other users. 5. A tall mixed drink consisting of several kinds of rum, liqueur, and fruit juice.
With so many definitions, I think I will pick number 2 to explore further. I find it funny as I search the Internet, that the definitions do not include any type of virus. No virus, radiation waves, or food poisoning. Just good old fashion witchcraft.
The zombie concept was an element of the Haitian African-American religion known as Vodou (or Voodoo). The term zombie is used to describe a deceased individual who is revived and has their every action governed by a bokor (or sorcerer). The reanimated person is thought to have no will of its own, and is said to remain in a 'zombie-like' state. It is believed that the bokor captures and stores the victims soul (or zombi astral) in a jar or bottle, which can be either be used to strengthen their powers or sold on to clients as a good luck charm.
This original description is a far cry from what movies and books depict them as. And wouldn't this take zombies back further into time?
Necromancy /ˈnɛkrɵmænsi/ is a form of magic in which the practitioner seeks to summon the spirit of a deceased person, either as an apparition or ghost, or to raise them bodily, for the purpose of divination. In Renaissance magic, necromancy was classified as a forbidden art. Early necromancy is likely related to shamanism, which calls upon spirits such as the ghosts of ancestors. Classical necromancers addressed the dead in "a mixture of high-pitch squeaking and low droning", comparable to the trance-state mutterings of shamans.
With each passage I find about these soulless creatures I find one thing in common. A puppet master. But the movies that we see today have done away with this controller. Why? Because it terrifies people not to have control of a situation. That is the primal fear in us all. Think. Vampires and mind control, werewolves and strength, zombies and numbers. They all boil down to an uncontrollable situation. Something that is unstoppable and unrelenting.
The thing that I find strange in all of this, I dream of zombies often. I talk to them and they respond as if they are normal human beings. The situation is always out of control and they will attack people, but never me. I am usually trying to herd people that I know to safety because I know that if they are with me the zombies will not attack them. I had someone ask me once, "In your dreams, when they talk to you, and they take you as one of their own, do you feel like their queen?" I laughed and responded. "No, but I do feel like I'm one of them."
So who would be my puppet master?
Have pleasant vampire, werewolf, and zombie dreams. www.authorcvhunt.com
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noun /ˈzämbē/
zombies, plural1. Originally, a snake-deity of or deriving from West Africa and Haiti. 2. A soulless corpse said to be revived by witchcraft, esp. in certain African and Caribbean religions. 3. A person who is or appears lifeless, apathetic, or completely unresponsive to their surroundings. 4. A computer controlled by a hacker without the owner's knowledge, which is made to send large quantities of data to a website, making it inaccessible to other users. 5. A tall mixed drink consisting of several kinds of rum, liqueur, and fruit juice.
With so many definitions, I think I will pick number 2 to explore further. I find it funny as I search the Internet, that the definitions do not include any type of virus. No virus, radiation waves, or food poisoning. Just good old fashion witchcraft.
The zombie concept was an element of the Haitian African-American religion known as Vodou (or Voodoo). The term zombie is used to describe a deceased individual who is revived and has their every action governed by a bokor (or sorcerer). The reanimated person is thought to have no will of its own, and is said to remain in a 'zombie-like' state. It is believed that the bokor captures and stores the victims soul (or zombi astral) in a jar or bottle, which can be either be used to strengthen their powers or sold on to clients as a good luck charm.
This original description is a far cry from what movies and books depict them as. And wouldn't this take zombies back further into time?
Necromancy /ˈnɛkrɵmænsi/ is a form of magic in which the practitioner seeks to summon the spirit of a deceased person, either as an apparition or ghost, or to raise them bodily, for the purpose of divination. In Renaissance magic, necromancy was classified as a forbidden art. Early necromancy is likely related to shamanism, which calls upon spirits such as the ghosts of ancestors. Classical necromancers addressed the dead in "a mixture of high-pitch squeaking and low droning", comparable to the trance-state mutterings of shamans.
With each passage I find about these soulless creatures I find one thing in common. A puppet master. But the movies that we see today have done away with this controller. Why? Because it terrifies people not to have control of a situation. That is the primal fear in us all. Think. Vampires and mind control, werewolves and strength, zombies and numbers. They all boil down to an uncontrollable situation. Something that is unstoppable and unrelenting.
The thing that I find strange in all of this, I dream of zombies often. I talk to them and they respond as if they are normal human beings. The situation is always out of control and they will attack people, but never me. I am usually trying to herd people that I know to safety because I know that if they are with me the zombies will not attack them. I had someone ask me once, "In your dreams, when they talk to you, and they take you as one of their own, do you feel like their queen?" I laughed and responded. "No, but I do feel like I'm one of them."
So who would be my puppet master?
Have pleasant vampire, werewolf, and zombie dreams. www.authorcvhunt.com
www.authorcvhunt.com
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