Is the film Avatar portraying paganism and would we be living in harmony with nature, like the blue….?
The Na’vi are portrayed with more of a animist/pantheist religion than what we’d understand as paganism (although arguably both those things are pagan). Pandora is a world in which all things are symbiotically bound via nerve conduction, early in the film this is mentioned by Grace and Norm as a bioelectric connection between two trees and later as the entire planet being essentially one massive super brain, a phenomenon the Na’vi call Eywa and worship as a deity. Here on Earth however symbiosis is a rare thing, usually the relationship between two different creatures is parasitic in nature. Here “mother Earth” invests her time trying to kill us all, plant, animal and human alike and our survival has been a constant struggle of adaptation against those destructive attempts, nature here is more like the Hindu destroyer Kali than the loving Eywa of Pandora. The idea that humans are no longer in “harmony” with nature is a silly one, not only was there never a harmony with nature to begin
