TWK: Mag?

maru · 28 Feb 2005, 12:47 · from 2005-February.txt.gz

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From: marudubshinki at gmail.com (maru)
Date: Mon Feb 28 12:47:46 2005
Subject: (urth) TWK: Mag?
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StoneOx17 at aol.com wrote:

>
>I'm really confused here, as well.  I do remember that somewhere Wolfe implies
>that the Valfather is a stand-in for everybody's father.  If that's true, maybe 
>the Lady of Skai is in some sense everybody's mother, in which case having 
>Mag remind Able of her would be fair.
>
>I'm also confused about whether Mythgarthr really exists, or is just an 
>internal construction of Able's (while he's really being whisked off in an
>ambulance).  If everything is internal, then the identification of the
>Lady with his mother makes more sense.  Do any defenders/opponents of 
>this interpretation want to weigh in?  In fact, is Mythgarthr necessarily
>either internal or external, or could it somehow be both at once?
>
>  
>
I'll take the 'Unbeliever' route out: Mythgarthr is both. As for the 
Valfather
and co. (Are they Overcyns?  The Knight implies so, but I don't know 
what The Wizard
sez.) since they are the gods of that plane, we should expect them to be 
mythic
or archetypal, since those interpretations would have more adherents; 
parents
are of course achetypal, and the Lady's association with the Moon even 
more so.

~Maru
I could, of course, be wrong; but since when has that stopped any of us?

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