{"id":3744,"date":"2023-02-23T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3744"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:10:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:10:43","slug":"the-fate-of-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3744","title":{"rendered":"THE FATE OF…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Have you ever wondered what happened to the ancient Dravidians and their kingdom of Dravidia? No, because they’re an extant ethnic group and that would be a bit like wondering about the fate of the Caucasians and their fabled land of Caucasia? Excatly. But nevertheless, here’s Hawkman flying into Dravidia, somewhere in Mongolia.<\/p>\n

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Furthermore, the Dravidian king claims that his people originally came from a now-sunken land called Eden. An intriguing concept – that Eden is truly lost because it sank into the sea. Nothing comes of it though.<\/p>\n

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The really interesting thing to come out of this adventure is the idea that a prior incarnation of Hawkman might have ruled Dravidia as Keft, known as Icaro, the Redeemer. My experience with Golden Age Hawkman is limited to his JSA appearances, so I don’t know if the exploration of his prior incarnations is a running topic or if this is a weird outlier, decades before the idea of Hawkman and Hawkgirl being endlessly reincarnated gained steam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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