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Mythology of Carnivàle
''Carnivàle'' is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression. The series traces the disparate storylines of a young carnival worker named Ben Hawkins and Brother Justin Crowe, a preacher in California. The overarching story is built around a good and evil theme, which serves as a human-scaled metaphor within a complex structure of myth and allegory.〔〔 Samson, the carnival's dwarf manager, sets up the show's mythology with a prologue in the pilot episode, talking of "a creature of light and a creature of darkness" being born "to each generation" preparing for a final battle.
Most mythological elements in ''Carnivàle'' relate to so-called ''Avatars'' (or ''Creatures of Light'' and ''Darkness''), fictional human-like beings with supernatural powers who embody good and evil. In its first season ''Carnivàle'' does not reveal its characters as Avatars beyond insinuation, and makes the nature of suggested Avatars a central question. By the second season it is established that Ben is a Creature of Light and Brother Justin a Creature of Darkness. Other than through the characters, the show's good-and-evil theme manifests in the series' contemporary religion, the Christian military order Knights Templar, tarot divination, and in historical events like the Dustbowl and humankind's first nuclear test. Show creator Daniel Knauf did not respond to questions about the mythology but did provide hints about the mythological structure to online fandom both during and after the two-season run of ''Carnivàle''. Nevertheless, many of the intended clues remained unnoticed by viewers. Knauf left fans a production summary of ''Carnivàle'''s first season two years after cancellation. This so-called Pitch Document, originally written to give HBO and Knauf's co-writers an overview of the intended storyline, backed up and expanded upon the assumed mythological rules.
== Avatars ==
The term ''Avatar'' (also spelled ''Avatara'') originates in Hindu mythology, where it most commonly refers to the incarnation (bodily manifestation) of a higher being or the Supreme Being on Earth. ''Carnivàle'''s story never clearly establishes the meaning of this term, yet HBO and the writers used the term interchangeably with the Creatures of Light and Darkness of the series' opening monologue. The series portrays Avatars as human-like beings with supernatural powers who embody good and evil, and whose constant and age-long struggle serves to explain the Dark Ages and Ages of Enlightenment in humanity's history in the real world.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Clancy Brown )〕 ''Carnivàle'' represents this Avataric duality as Light and Dark in several instances. The surnames of the main characters, Ben Hawkins and Justin Crowe, suggest a symbolic link to hawks and crows, the winged ''Creatures of Light'' and ''Dark''. The last two Tarot cards seen in the ''Carnivàles opening title sequence are "The Sun" and "The Moon", standing for God and the Devil.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Carnivàle Opening Credits )〕 By the same token, the show's title card and the logo of the carnival depict a sun placed opposite a moon.〔 Show creator Daniel Knauf designed this logo.
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