1. Chakra colors as well as associated numbers (all numbers being Indian numbers; numbers originary to the border of India and China, the mental-aural discourse of 1-sun 2-eyes 5-fingers etc. with the pictogrammatic interpretation of such) both apply here.

The Lantern Corps should have associated sacral numbers as well as colors; color alone is pure qualia; number has an inherent physical meaning (two of a thing is different than one of a thing is different than infinity, than void, than fraction…).

All I’m sayin: If DC hasn’t involved Indian philosophy in its story arcs, it is missing the fuck out.

2. Barbarians — Conan and Kull iterations — are my only automatic exceptions, at this point, besides vetted Lovecraft iterations. Barbarian prose is gorgeous; the proto-fascist thought ANIMATING the writing is NOT. But the prose is fantastic.

This from Howard’s “The Black Colossus:”

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He stood, the one atom of life amidst the colossal monuments of desolation and decay. Not even a vulture hung like a black dot in the vast blue vault of the sky that the sun glazed with its heat. On every hand rose the grim relics of another, forgotten age: huge broken pillars, thrusting up their jagged pinnacles into the sky; long wavering lines of crumbling walls; fallen cyclopean blocks of stone; shattered images, whose horrific features the corroding winds and dust-storms had half erased. From horizon to horizon no sign of life: only the sheer breathtaking sweep of the naked desert, bisected by the wandering line of a long-dry river course; in the midst of that vastness the glimmering fangs of the ruins, the columns standing up like broken masts of sunken ships — all dominated by the towering ivory dome before which Shevatas stood trembling.

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Alls I’m sayin iz: “Glimmering Fangs,” so hip hop.

So necessary.

Also — have you looked into chakra colors at all, because this sort of reminds me of that idea of emotional/color link, but then also connected to the body.