Modes Of Thought In Anterran Literature is an audio drama Podcast by Wolf At The Door Productions, creators of Batman Unburied.
The podcast mostly takes the form of recordings of lectures of a Classics university course of the same name, given by an unnamed professor (voiced by Alexander Kemp). A Chinese submarine in the Pacific managed to unearth a series of underwater ruins of an advanced civilization dubbed "Anterra" dating back to 70,000 years ago: making it the oldest known civilization by several dozen millennia. After the painstaking translation of writings found in the ruins, the Professor and his team have managed to reconstruct several aspects of their mythology, culture, and history, all of which are related in the lectures.
...or at the very least according to the Professor himself. Thanks to an alleged coverup by the Chinese government, pretty much nothing has been shared with the scientific community at large, apart from a few people in the Professor's inner circle, to the point that he's widely perceived to be a crank or worse. So is Anterra an actual discovery that changes everything we know about mankind...or a hoax?
Modes Of Thought In Anterran Literature contains examples of:
- Deity of Human Origin: In the Anterran creation myth, the first being was actually a human woman, Teotia, who then created the god Ikopaa, whose thousand eyes ensured that the world would not reset itself whenever Teotia slept. The Professor notes that Anterra is the only known culture that claims the gods were created by humans rather than the other way around.
- Hire the Critic: Chris is utterly convinced Anterra is a hoax and is only attending the class for kicks. When he finally drops it, the Professor summons him to his office, reveals he always knew Chris doesn't believe him and tells him to stay since the Professor wants skeptics around him. Chris accepts after the Professor shows him an Anterran knife.
- Ultimate Job Security: The Professor has tenure, meaning he not only benefits from the Real Life Ultimate Job Security inherent to such positions, but he's also entitled to teaching one class entirely of his own choosing, hence why he can teach a class on a subject that most of the rest of the faculty doesn't believe even exists.
