Feline Divinanimality: Thundercats Fetishism and Lyran Mysticism

This paper details the profound impact of science fiction on NRMs, with a focus on the 1980s children’s cartoon Thundercats and how it has become fetishized, and even heralded, by NRMs based upon starseed ontology as a thinly disguised metaphor for an intergalactic feline race called the Lyrans. These starseed NRMs promote an intergalactic feline exogenesis, arguing that the Lyrans are the first bipedal beings, whom all sentient hominoid beings stem from. The more people start believing in Lyran starseeds the more they are acknowledging the uncanny similarities with their feline intergalactic ancestors and the Thundercats, questioning whether the cartoon was made consciously or subconsciously to mimic this Lyran ontology. In this paper I will analyze the specific correlation between fiction-based inspiration and these growing feline starseed NRMs, arguing that they offer an epistemological framework for a new creature theology, which promotes an intergalactic feline mysticism and ontology.