![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps the Spear is the answer to missing Fate, because instead we have Destiny(which is better than Fate, because it is attended to or designed rather than pure consequence and clockwork). If the raven is Odin's Munin, then the one not depicted is Hunin, which is Fate. It's not advocating a crusade, but it's not NOT advocating a crusade. It's a bit punk rock in the fact that it's kind of saying "you can count me out, but I'm coming back with a vengeance" but it's also kind of hyper-conservative in that it is restoring a very pre-eminent system of power that the world would like to celebrate having killed. Overall, it's kind of a counter-counter-cultural image. My only thought is it is the Spear of Destiny. There's also something that looks like a spear in the background but I'm retarded so I don't know what it is or means. The swords in the heap may have a new companion soon enough, as this one may end up earning itself a name through use. While Christ did not come to lead a rebellion, He does bring a sword: the sword of Truth. The left hand, rather than symbolizing peace like the Christ Pantocrator, is drawing a sword. So there's another microcosm of the image in a sort of phoenix-structure to the Kingdom of God. As a result, even attempts to destabilize and abandon it will only lead to suffering, which is eventually going to re-ignite the true heart of the body of Christ. This implies that sacrifice is the heart of Christianity and the source of this empire. The orb has a red cross on it, and similar color marks the ornamentation of the throne. As things descend into chaos, eventually shelter/refuge/escape will be found deep at the bottom, and instead of finding the barren cavern, there will surprisingly be riches down there, to be found by a random person carrying a torch who is either seeking the deep or just trying to escape the surface. He needs to wake and rise up to take his place as a type of Adam, a carer and ruler of a domain. The bottom of the mountain is not where the king should be, he cannot rule from down there. She despite being a sign of death, he ends up serving as an indicator of life, which is a microcosm of the message of the image entirely. But the king is not dead, he is only sleeping. The bird is not like the dove that finds land and life, it is the bird that finds chaos and eats the dead-perhaps here he is waiting, expecting that the king is a corpse. The left-facing bird is reminiscent of Odin's Raven of memory(munin, right?), but also as a worldly principality actively attending to the supposed death. The (not so) ancient world becomes not just hard to understand but suspicious or doubtful about what it even was. Our lives have subsequently become more and more twisted through the generations, to the point that it's hard to even accurately see the face of those who came before us. The beard is his remainder over time, which grows in cyclical spirals that flow from his very face, obscuring it and distracting from it the more they grow. The king has dropped his symbol of empire, because he has fallen asleep. There is gold, which is fungible wealth(wisdom) and heraldry(tradition and context/specificity), and swords (which always beg the question when in a treasury, instead of an armory, of what battles they are from)-past struggles and tools of power. Even if they did, the king is long dead, after he buried them under the mountain, though we know not whether for safety or greed(is there a difference?). The riches are lost, maybe they never existed really. The riches are the things of real value that have been lost in our culture, and one way to see this is from the surface. I struggle to contain the limits of such a loaded image, so I expect I will do a lot of deleting here as I try to stay succinct. I'd like to share my preliminary interpretation, and get feedback, as well as selfishly to cement my perception with a timestamp on Reddit so when he eventually talks about it somewhere I can see how my view lines up with what is 'correct' ( gasp! Authorial Intent!) But after seeing other people similarly puzzled, I gave it another go, and I think I am onto something. Then I saw it again and I began to wonder if I am completely delusional in my ability to understand anything Jonathan says without him spoon-feeding it to me. SeƱor Pageau has done a new image, and put it on a shirt. ![]()
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