03-27-2023, 09:50 PM
Yeah, that works Asc. I like that we can mine these things and pick and choose what works or is interesting. That how RJ did it. Using those myths from the OT/NT as we like works. (Though I wonder if anyone would be bold enough to write Yahweh as a channeler "god" from the 6th age who is reborn. :-D From a historical perspective, it is not unfounded. There is a lot of evidence- textual and otherwise- that the god of the hebrews was in a pantheon of other gods (hence the term God of gods). He was sometimes paired a goddess consort, Asherah. And he apparantly had different names and incarnations depending on the town. But it might be somewhat insensitive- or at least troubling for some- to go down that route. Which I completely understand.)
Ohh...something occurs to me. At the end of WOT, Rand lit his pipe without the power. While this is never explained (on purpose), the implication is that he had transcended the pattern. That he had reached the point where he could weave the pattern itself- which he had done during his battle with the dark one. He had access to and even saw the souls outside the pattern.
He had become Neo in the Matrix.
What if, in the 5th or 6th age, there was a channeler (Rand/Nik level) who achieved that kind of transcendence. (And now I think of the Buddha, who had achieved Moksha/release and put off his passing to nirvana in order to teach enlightenment to others.)
What if this channeler...and why couldn't it be Amerasu?- had performed a similar feat back then to achieve enlightenment and was able to create the horn of valere against future need? Perhaps she had called previous souls to life in her power...and thus created a talisman to do it again?
Just making stuff up....
Ohh...something occurs to me. At the end of WOT, Rand lit his pipe without the power. While this is never explained (on purpose), the implication is that he had transcended the pattern. That he had reached the point where he could weave the pattern itself- which he had done during his battle with the dark one. He had access to and even saw the souls outside the pattern.
He had become Neo in the Matrix.
What if, in the 5th or 6th age, there was a channeler (Rand/Nik level) who achieved that kind of transcendence. (And now I think of the Buddha, who had achieved Moksha/release and put off his passing to nirvana in order to teach enlightenment to others.)
What if this channeler...and why couldn't it be Amerasu?- had performed a similar feat back then to achieve enlightenment and was able to create the horn of valere against future need? Perhaps she had called previous souls to life in her power...and thus created a talisman to do it again?
Just making stuff up....