ER notes the connection between Kolob and Kobol on BSG.
- Type
- Book
- Source
- Eric Repphun Non-LDS
- Hearsay
- DirectSecondary
- Reference
Eric Repphun, "Mormon Science Fiction: Tales of Interstellar Exodus and Perfection," in Carole M. Cusack and Alex Norman, eds., Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Production (Leiden: Brill, 2012), 60
- Scribe/Publisher
- Brill
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
In Larson's Battlestar Galactica, the mythic lost tribes of Israel are literalised in the Twelve Colonies of Kobol and the missing thirteenth colony on Earth. 'Kobol' is itself a transparent anagram for Kolob, the star in the Mormon cosmos that, according to the Book of Abraham, lies "nearest to the celestial, or the residence of God," imagined by many Mormons as a physical planetary body out in space (Figure 1, Facsimile 2, The Book of Abraham).
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