Fae, Aliens, Angels, and Teletubbies

What?!

I know that's what you're all thinking, but hear me out. This will be a little disjointed, but maybe eventually I can turn it into something coherent.

And P.S., it's OK if this is tl and you dr :P


This thought-train got moving when Hetshepsit warned me that, with my connection to and love for barn owls, I probably shouldn't see "The Fourth Kind," because, in her words, "the aliens, in the movie, they take the form of barn owls and FREAKING GO IN YOUR ROOM TO FUCKING ABDUCT YOU. You will never look at owls in the same way if you see that movie." My first thoughts were, "DAMN THEM, I WANTED TO SEE THAT!" But as I pondered things more, I figure I could deal. See, my parents are of the opinion (from their own experiences as well as personal religious leanings) that aliens (especially the commonly seen "Greys") and related phenomena are at least kin to the Fae, if not essentially the same thing. Coming from that standpoint, it makes a certain amount of sense that aliens would take on the form of barn owls (who are regarded as Otherworld messengers and communicators) to take people away.

Moving on from there, there are theories and beliefs that say that Witches are the children of the Fae and humans, which reminded me of the explanation from the gnostic/heretical Christian Book of Enoch:

Chapter VI
1. And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters.
2. And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.'
3. And Semjâzâ, who was their leader, said unto them: 'I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.'
4. And they all answered him and said: 'Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.'
5. Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it.
6. And they were in all two hundred; who descended ⌈in the days⌉ of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it.
7. And these are the names of their leaders: Sêmîazâz, their leader, Arâkîba, Râmêêl, Kôkabîêl, Tâmîêl, Râmîêl, Dânêl, Êzêqêêl, Barâqîjâl, Asâêl, Armârôs, Batârêl, Anânêl, Zaqîêl, Samsâpêêl, Satarêl, Tûrêl, Jômjâêl, Sariêl.
8. These are their chiefs of tens.

Chapter VII
1. And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants.
2. And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells:
3. Who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them,
4. the giants turned against them and devoured mankind.
5. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood.
6. Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.

Chapter VIII
1. And Azâzêl taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals 〈of the earth〉 and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all colouring tinctures.
2. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. Semjâzâ taught enchantments, and root-cuttings, Armârôs the resolving of enchantments, Barâqîjâl, (taught) astrology, Kôkabêl the constellations, Ezêqêêl the knowledge of the clouds, 〈Araqiêl the signs of the earth, Shamsiêl the signs of the sun〉, and Sariêl the course of the moon. [...]

I know that was long, but what it boils down to is that, according to Enoch, Witches are the children of angels and humans' "comely daughters." (It also illustrates why Sodom and Gomorrah were such a big to-do - it wasn't so much the gayness that was troubling, but the fact that there could be more Witches *gasp!*)

Teletubbies are only tangentially related here, but I have on decent authority that the show expresses a lot of British Faerie Lore. Here's my under-educated-on-this-particular-subject catalog of observations:

~ They live in a hill surrounded by rabbits in "Teletubby Land" which is separate from ours. This is pretty obviously Faerie.

~ They dance and sing to make child in sun laugh. Sun God, anyone?

~ Round simple faces with big round eyes is another common Fae/alien description (similar to Dropas or the tree spirits from "Princess Mononoke").

~ They communicate primarily with children, and I think most of us know that children are far more connected to the Otherealms than are adults.

~ They eat Tubby Custard and Tubby Toast, which is reminiscent of leaving out milk and pancakes for the Fae.

~ The Teletubbies' colors are green, yellow, red, and purple (but my five-year-old insists that it's dark blue). These are the colors commonly associated with the Elements. Plus, there are other color correspondences at work - Dipsy, the green one, is concerned with image and materialism, making him Earth. Tinky Winky, the blue/purple one, carries a bag, for carrying things (away), which places him in the West with Water. LaaLaa and Po, the yellow and red ones, are reversed from typical Wiccan/Pagan associations though; LaaLaa is a dancer, which makes her more Fiery (passion and expression), and Po rides a scooter which translates to travel and Air. However, the two male and two female Tubbies are also reversed, and there is some history of reversing correspondences to protect Mysteries in esoteric traditions, so I find these discrepancies acceptable.

I know, this is long, and like I said, pretty disjointed, but it's stuff I wanted to get down.