Luthors and Kents

Young Lex Luthor

Smallville uses the Superman story as its basis. Superman relies on seasonal myths that people have been sharing around campfires since ancient times.

In the Lex Luthor (Light Lucifer?) back story, the boy Lex has a mane of orange red hair until the meteor shower that brings Clark to Earth. (In a boat [spaceship] like baby Horus) The meteor shower also shears Lex of his hair and turns him into a baldy.

Hairless Lex

The red-orange hair is like the rays of the Sun, and the sheared hair is like the sun losing his strength. Lex loses his hair in a lush green field that's ready to be harvested.

Incongruously, Lex's father with the lion-like hair (Lionel Luthor) thinks he's hideous and deformed once he loses his hair. Who would care if their kid was bald? If it was such an issue, you'd correct it with a wig.

The corrupt, old, rich, in this case figuratively child-eating King is a feature of a slew of myths (and would correspond to the Donald Trump character currently played by Donald Trump).

Clark arrives in Smallville to Martha and John Kent just like Jesus to Mary and Joseph. Martha was unable to have children of her own, and the Kents adopt Clark. The Kents are people of the Earth (Mater, mother Earth) and the Sun. They are purely good, decent and wholesome.

As with Seth in The Contendings of Horus and Seth Lex is displaced from ruling the world by Clark-Horus's arrival, and even though he's best of friends with Clark initially, there's friction between them from the beginning, foretelling their future strife.

Clark's two love interests are Chloe (an epithet of Demeter) and Lana (Luna?). Chloe frequently wears Red (fire). Lana wears blue (water). (They more or less correspond to Ragnar's wives Aslaug and Lagertha) More on them on a future post.