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(.#328).- Little green men.
Little green men.
The "little green men" (LGM, Little Green Men) are extraterrestrials represented in the stereotyped form of small humanoid creatures with green skin and sometimes with antennae on their heads.
The phrase is also used to describe the gremlins, mythical creatures known to cause problems in airplanes and other mechanical devices.
History
The use of the term "little green man" or "little green child" goes back at least to the twelfth century with the story of the green children of the village of Woolpit, England.
Following the many flying saucer observations made in the 1950s, the term "little green man" became commonplace for extraterrestrials. In the classic case of Kelly-Hopkinsville in 1955, where two peasants from Kentucky claimed to have met humanoid aliens metallic color barely 1 m tall, many newspapers, taking liberties with their story, spoke of "little men green ".
Parodic use
The little green men are staged parodically in many works of science fiction, where in accordance with the clichés, these extraterrestrials come from the planet Mars. In 1954, Martians, Go Home! by Fredric Brown depicts the invasion of the Earth by laughing and exasperating martians by their uneasiness. (1.) Tim Burton develops this theme in 1996 in the movie Mars Attacks !.
Notes and references
1. ↑ Pierre Versins, Encyclopedia of utopia, extraordinary journeys and science fiction, The Age of Man, p. 132.
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Martian
Martian is a generic name for several types of imaginary creatures believed to live on Mars. According to the most widespread version, the Martians, also called "little green men", are vaguely humanoid and repulsive, thin, with a big head and bulging eyes, usually with bad intentions towards the species. human. The name Martian has often become, wrongly, synonymous with extraterrestrial in popular culture.
Origins of Martian folklore
In ancient times, Mars was associated with deities. It was the discovery of the "Martian canals" in 1877 by the astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli who launched a series of legends about an intelligent extraterrestrial species living on Mars, who would have built an artificial structure there1. Later, astronomer Camille Flammarion observes the planet Mars from an observatory in Juvisy-sur-Orge and hypothesizes that the canals were built by Martians1. Following this idea, Percival Lowell has an observatory built in Flagstaff and observes these famous "canals". There are hundreds of them and claim that they are not only the work of the Martians, but also that they were created to fight against the desertification of the planet by transporting the ice of the polar ice caps towards the dried up equatorial lands1. The idea quickly became widespread, it was not until 1909 and the work of Eugene Antoniadi that we discover that the observation of the channels was due to the poor quality of astronomy instruments, but the idea of built channels by Martians remained anchored. (1.)
Communication with the Martians
In 1908, William Pickering proposed to use huge parabolic mirrors to focus the light emitted by electric lamps on the Martian surface, so that the Martians can see us. Francis Galton had proposed to use mirrors in 1892, others to trace messages in giant letters in the sands of deserts like the Sahara. In the 1890s, "flashes" on the surface of Mars were interpreted as smoke signals emitted by the Martians and in 1895, the New York Herald announced that the word Shajdai, - God in Hebrew - is visible in a drawing of the Martian surface made in 18901. Nikola Tesla intercepted signals from Mars in 1901 and proposed the construction of an interplanetary radio station to interact with them. In 1919, Guglielmo Marconi captured radio broadcasts apparently from space. He announced that they came from the planet Mars. In 1924, the United States Army and Navy took advantage of a passage from Mars to the nearest Earth to listen to possible radio signals emitted by the Martians. (1.)
In the 1850s, those who thought that Martians were mediums or telepaths tried to contact them through spiritualism1. The seer Helen Smith would have entered into communication with Martians and described very precisely the landscapes of Mars, the Martians and the Martian language. (1.)
In 1902 Carl Gustav Jung wrote the thesis Psychology and Pathology of Occult Phenomena and described the psychic trances of a young woman who saw many channels and Martians mounted on flying machines, explaining this case by a dissociation of the personality.
War of the Worlds
From the famous novel of H. G. Wells, published in 1898, was a radio program written and narrated by Orson Welles, broadcast in 1938 on the CBS network in the United States. A tenacious legend forged by newspapers mixing collective hysteria, panics, suicides, heart attacks, road exodus, was attached to it when the facts are contrary: 2% of auditors, no confusion with reality, no concordant testimony, no increase in hospitalizations. It serves as an argument in some to justify the need to hide the reality of hypothetical aliens to an immature, childish, emotional people that should be protected from its inappropriate responses.
Martians in popular culture
Literature
War of the worlds, novel of H. G. Wells, published in 1898, describes the invasion of the Earth by Martians mounted on metal tripods.
The prisoner of the planet Mars and his sequel The war of vampires, novels of Gustave Le Rouge published in 1908, imagine the journey of a human propelled on Mars thanks to the psychic energy of several thousands of fakirs.
A Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel published in 1917, tells the story of a captain who discovers Mars inhabited by aliens some of whom have four arms and green skin.
The Navigators of Infinity, novel by J.-H. Rosny Elder appeared in 1925, describes an exploration mission that lands on Mars and discovers alien races.
The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury's science-fiction cycle, published in 1950, describes Martians facing a cataclysm.
The March Trilogy, a series of three science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson chronicling the colonization and terraforming of the planet Mars.
Notes and references
1. ↑ a b c e f g and h "Martian Folklore" [archive] (accessed August 11, 2009).
F I N .
Little green men.
The "little green men" (LGM, Little Green Men) are extraterrestrials represented in the stereotyped form of small humanoid creatures with green skin and sometimes with antennae on their heads.
The phrase is also used to describe the gremlins, mythical creatures known to cause problems in airplanes and other mechanical devices.
History
The use of the term "little green man" or "little green child" goes back at least to the twelfth century with the story of the green children of the village of Woolpit, England.
Following the many flying saucer observations made in the 1950s, the term "little green man" became commonplace for extraterrestrials. In the classic case of Kelly-Hopkinsville in 1955, where two peasants from Kentucky claimed to have met humanoid aliens metallic color barely 1 m tall, many newspapers, taking liberties with their story, spoke of "little men green ".
Parodic use
The little green men are staged parodically in many works of science fiction, where in accordance with the clichés, these extraterrestrials come from the planet Mars. In 1954, Martians, Go Home! by Fredric Brown depicts the invasion of the Earth by laughing and exasperating martians by their uneasiness. (1.) Tim Burton develops this theme in 1996 in the movie Mars Attacks !.
Notes and references
1. ↑ Pierre Versins, Encyclopedia of utopia, extraordinary journeys and science fiction, The Age of Man, p. 132.
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Martian
Martian is a generic name for several types of imaginary creatures believed to live on Mars. According to the most widespread version, the Martians, also called "little green men", are vaguely humanoid and repulsive, thin, with a big head and bulging eyes, usually with bad intentions towards the species. human. The name Martian has often become, wrongly, synonymous with extraterrestrial in popular culture.
Origins of Martian folklore
In ancient times, Mars was associated with deities. It was the discovery of the "Martian canals" in 1877 by the astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli who launched a series of legends about an intelligent extraterrestrial species living on Mars, who would have built an artificial structure there1. Later, astronomer Camille Flammarion observes the planet Mars from an observatory in Juvisy-sur-Orge and hypothesizes that the canals were built by Martians1. Following this idea, Percival Lowell has an observatory built in Flagstaff and observes these famous "canals". There are hundreds of them and claim that they are not only the work of the Martians, but also that they were created to fight against the desertification of the planet by transporting the ice of the polar ice caps towards the dried up equatorial lands1. The idea quickly became widespread, it was not until 1909 and the work of Eugene Antoniadi that we discover that the observation of the channels was due to the poor quality of astronomy instruments, but the idea of built channels by Martians remained anchored. (1.)
Communication with the Martians
In 1908, William Pickering proposed to use huge parabolic mirrors to focus the light emitted by electric lamps on the Martian surface, so that the Martians can see us. Francis Galton had proposed to use mirrors in 1892, others to trace messages in giant letters in the sands of deserts like the Sahara. In the 1890s, "flashes" on the surface of Mars were interpreted as smoke signals emitted by the Martians and in 1895, the New York Herald announced that the word Shajdai, - God in Hebrew - is visible in a drawing of the Martian surface made in 18901. Nikola Tesla intercepted signals from Mars in 1901 and proposed the construction of an interplanetary radio station to interact with them. In 1919, Guglielmo Marconi captured radio broadcasts apparently from space. He announced that they came from the planet Mars. In 1924, the United States Army and Navy took advantage of a passage from Mars to the nearest Earth to listen to possible radio signals emitted by the Martians. (1.)
In the 1850s, those who thought that Martians were mediums or telepaths tried to contact them through spiritualism1. The seer Helen Smith would have entered into communication with Martians and described very precisely the landscapes of Mars, the Martians and the Martian language. (1.)
In 1902 Carl Gustav Jung wrote the thesis Psychology and Pathology of Occult Phenomena and described the psychic trances of a young woman who saw many channels and Martians mounted on flying machines, explaining this case by a dissociation of the personality.
War of the Worlds
From the famous novel of H. G. Wells, published in 1898, was a radio program written and narrated by Orson Welles, broadcast in 1938 on the CBS network in the United States. A tenacious legend forged by newspapers mixing collective hysteria, panics, suicides, heart attacks, road exodus, was attached to it when the facts are contrary: 2% of auditors, no confusion with reality, no concordant testimony, no increase in hospitalizations. It serves as an argument in some to justify the need to hide the reality of hypothetical aliens to an immature, childish, emotional people that should be protected from its inappropriate responses.
Martians in popular culture
Literature
War of the worlds, novel of H. G. Wells, published in 1898, describes the invasion of the Earth by Martians mounted on metal tripods.
The prisoner of the planet Mars and his sequel The war of vampires, novels of Gustave Le Rouge published in 1908, imagine the journey of a human propelled on Mars thanks to the psychic energy of several thousands of fakirs.
A Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel published in 1917, tells the story of a captain who discovers Mars inhabited by aliens some of whom have four arms and green skin.
The Navigators of Infinity, novel by J.-H. Rosny Elder appeared in 1925, describes an exploration mission that lands on Mars and discovers alien races.
The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury's science-fiction cycle, published in 1950, describes Martians facing a cataclysm.
The March Trilogy, a series of three science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson chronicling the colonization and terraforming of the planet Mars.
Notes and references
1. ↑ a b c e f g and h "Martian Folklore" [archive] (accessed August 11, 2009).
F I N .
