>>6304271>SWORD BRIDGETo my knowledge the origin of this sword bridge myth is Arthurian, and not the historical Dark Ages / 500AD Welsh Arthurian legends but the later French influenced 12th Century chivalric tales, I wonder if it was possibly influenced by the crusades, I have a vague memory that a sword-bridge metaphor features in Islam (I think it is this, As-Sirat?)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/As-Sir%C4%81tSo maybe that Arthurian romance theme of the knight having to crawl over a sharpened bridge sword-edge to rescue some damsel in distress was inspired by these ideas after the Crusades
>ancient MECHA MOUNTAINOf course, this is an invocation of the TECHNOLOGICAL SUBLIME I mentioned in the past, this theme of the Caspar David Friedrich 1818 painting Wanderer on the mountain pinnacle with the mists and fog etc except instead of the German Romanticism awe at the wondrous panoramas of nature looming over the diminished proportions of the human form, the aesthetic fear and trembling has been redirected instead towards the artifice of machine phenomena, the natural landscape reshaped by man and civilisation
Obviously whenever anyone conjures the spectacle of colossal mechanical beings, the progenitor of all tales concerning enormous constructed stomping humanoid machine titans, naturally one thinks immediately of the Ted Hughes tale, The Iron Man (1968)
No, not Tetsuo The Iron Man, not the unspeakable Nintendo anime thing with the pink swords gah, it is this
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Man_(novel)>set in Australia>fights space DRAGON>only a slightly injured ear lobe...???>bringer of world peacemaybe it was a prefiguration about AUKUS or something
