Bigfoot, the embodied soul, walking on water or air

This morning I read the latest post from William Wright, who is taking his first steps down the dark path of taking stalker photos of random strangers in the name of sync. (Just embrace it, Bill! It’s not like we’re not all under surveillance anyway.) The post is called “Bigfoot walking on water at the Minnesota State Fair,” and this is the creepy stalker photo the police later found on his hard drive:

William interprets this as representing St. Peter. It’s a fisherman (check) walking on water (check) and carrying a bucket (check), so yeah, definitely Peter. For William, Bigfoot itself symbolizes higher beings having to incarnate in human bodies which to them seem crude and primitive, like those of lower primates. And he thinks “walking on water” may actually refer to a Sky Walk.

Reading this put a Moody Blues song in my head, which begins with the line “Walk on the water” and has the refrain “Sooner or later we’ll be walking on air.” As I have noted before, The Moody Blues is an anagram of Embody the Soul, which fits with William’s reading of the Bigfoot symbol. Here is the song:

Immediately after reading William’s post, I went to the bathroom. My wife is a big bathroom reader (I’m not), and there’s always a little stack of books in there. Today at the top of the stack was a new one:

It’s a Chinese book, obviously, and an odd place to encounter the Christian symbolism of walking on water. The title translates as Things the Souls Taught Me, and it professes to contain true stories from the life of a man who can see ghosts.

I also associate Bigfoot with a particular type of walk. I first heard of Bigfoot in 1986 or 1987 from a classmate who, like Bofred, had a trademark song: “Walk Like an Egyptian” by the Bangles. To this day when I picture the legendary primate, I picture him walking like an Egyptian. Walking on water didn’t work out too well for the Egyptians in the Exodus story.

Note added: Just now I was listening to some music on YouTube, and it played this Johnny Walker ad, where it appears that Johnny and a big-footed anthropomorphic lobster king are walking on water (or maybe snow) in front of the moon.