Miriam the Ice Princess – Miriam the Prophet and Elsa the Snow Queen
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_(Frozen)
Thank you Ashley D. for your help with this one.
Miriam is the leader of the rebellion against the Sayameez. She is but a simple ice keeper in Yakhal Mountain. Her followers call her the Ice Princess.
Miriam (Hebrew: מִרְיָם, romanized: Mīryām, lit. ‘rebellion’) is described in the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament as the daughter of Amram and Jochebed, and the older sister of Moses and Aaron. She was a prophetess and first appears in the Book of Exodus.
The Torah refers to her as “Miriam the Prophetess” and the Talmud names her as one of the seven major female prophets of Israel. Scripture describes her alongside of Moses and Aaron as delivering the Jews from exile in Egypt: “For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam”. According to the Midrash, just as Moses led the men out of Egypt and taught them Torah, so too Miriam led the women and taught them Torah.
in a 19th century painting by Paul Delaroche
Miriam was the daughter of Amram and Jochebed and the sister of Aaron and Moses, the leader of the Israelites in ancient Egypt. The narrative of Moses’s infancy in the Torah describes an unnamed sister of Moses observing him being placed in the Nile; she is traditionally identified as Miriam.
In the biblical narrative of The Exodus, Miriam is described as a “prophetess” when she leads the Israelites in the Song of the Sea after the Pharaoh’s army is destroyed at the Yam Suph.
by the Dalziels (Dalziels’ Bible Gallery) (1881),
after a painting by Sir Edward John Poynter (1864).
When the Israelites are camped at Hazeroth after leaving Mount Sinai, Miriam and Aaron speak against Moses because he had married an unnamed “Ethiopian” or “Cushite” woman (translations differ). God comes down in a pillar of cloud and rebukes them, emphasizing the supreme prophetic authority of Moses. After God departs, Miriam appears white with a skin disease (tzaraath, traditionally translated as “leprosy”). Aaron asks for forgiveness and for Miriam to be cured, and Moses relays the prayer to God, who says that Miriam should be excluded from the Israelite camp for seven days, which is done.
Elsa is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Animation Studios’ animated fantasy film Frozen (2013), and later media of the Frozen franchise, including its sequel Frozen II (2019). She is voiced mainly by Idina Menzel, with Eva Bella as a young child and Spencer Ganus as a teenager in Frozen. In Frozen II, young Elsa is voiced by Mattea Conforti (at the start of the film) and Eva Bella (archive audio).
Created by co-writers and directors Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, Elsa is loosely based on the title character of “The Snow Queen”, a Danish fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. In the Disney film adaptation, she is introduced as a princess in the fictional Scandinavian Kingdom of Arendelle, heiress to the throne and the elder sister of Anna (Kristen Bell). Elsa has the magical ability to create and manipulate ice and snow. She inadvertently sends Arendelle into an eternal winter on the evening of her coronation. Throughout the film, she struggles first with controlling and concealing her abilities and then with liberating herself from her fears of unintentionally harming others, especially her younger sister.
The Snow Queen character, neutral but cold-hearted in the original fairytale and villain in numerous adaptations of the character, proved difficult to adapt to film due to her transparent depiction. Several film executives, including Walt Disney, attempted to build on the character, and a number of scheduled film adaptations were shelved when they could not work out the character. Buck and his co-director, Jennifer Lee, were ultimately able to solve the dilemma by depicting Elsa and Anna as sisters. As much as Anna’s struggle is external, Elsa’s is internal. This led to Elsa being gradually rewritten as a sympathetic, misunderstood character.
Elsa has received largely positive reception from reviewers, who praised her complex characterization and vulnerability. Menzel was also widely praised for her vocal performance of Elsa, especially that of her performance of the song “Let It Go”.
The current list of all the (known) Mirage references can be found here.
Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.
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