There's a decent set of resources dealing with early polytheistic Judaic mythilogy at pantheon.org. This is their paragraph on El, the original boss-god for that region. In some versions of the myth, YHVH is actually a son of El, or some kind of relation. Leader of the gods. The first Canaanite god,...

Heya, me again. I don't think there is anything wrong with 'reading too much" into a book, ecpecially if it's an epic series book like this. (If you think I was reading too much into the text, you should see what people are doing over in Harry Potter fandom-land!) Half of the fun of books like ...

Maybe someone can help with this: "I cannot heal this!" But the man's madness came upon her as if he had reached out and caught her wrists. Wailing helplessly, she returned to him, replaced her palms on his forehead. The terror of it rushed into her, filled her until it burst between her l...

I'm not trying to put your theory down or anything. I was just going off in a different direction. I can see something like that happening, but I would think that SRD would have placed it differently in the beginning. Like: instead of a car he never showed any interest in, it would be a toy he and L...

even MORE car goodness: From a website I found the other day on Jung's archetypical models, it seems that the car could be the final vehicle or 'chariot' to personality consolidation. The Self The ultimate pattern is the Self. For Jung this is the God image. Human self and divine self are incapable ...

More "car" goodness, (maybe I already mentioned it, though): Joan leaves TC, and takes the car, even though she is scared of infection -vs- Linden is still driving the same old beat-up car from 2nd Chrionichles because it "had carried her to her first encounters with Thomas Covenant.&...

My questions would be: how would a red car have anything to do with Covenant? So far, not much that I can see directly. Haven't got far yet, but theres this: While he had been in treatment, his wife, Joan, had divorced him -- taken their infant son and moved out of the state. The only thing in whic...

SRD takes some pains to say that if Linden communicates in a limited way with Jeremiah by placing Legos in random places in his constructions. If it's in the wrong place, he moves it; if it's in the right place, he leaves it alone. So I think if Linden had messed up his design by aligning the cars ...

Just some more thought on this before the coffee hits my stomach. For some reason, I am having a problem with the car representing a ceasure. I've no problem with the track being a symbol for the arch, but the car/ceasure thing isn't sitting right with me. Maybe because SRD has pointedly linked the ...

I had to throw it to Myste. Myste rocks.

I don't count Terisa as a contender, because she's the empty vessel who has to learn from these other role-models.

I guess I'll put my Mahdoubt thoughts here: While she might scream 'earthpower" I think that another way of putting it is that she screams "1st Chronichles" Where everybody was content to serve the Land, offer kindness, and still be their own person. She is like a 'blast from the past...

Stead : what did JK change? Please give! At the end of Goblet of Fire, Harry's wand pulls out the ghosts of all the murdered victims from Voldemort's wand, in reverse order. In my copy, Cedric Diggory comes out first (most recent murder done by the wand,) and Harry's mother comes out last, after hi...

I wish he'd just leave it as it is. My brain does cartwheels whenever I think of more than one version of a text floating around. Like when Rowling changed the text in Harry Potter 4 -- actually changed the events, like it was nothing, because she made a mistake she couldn't write herself out of. To...

Oh, sorry for doing that! See my edit, instead of posting again, I edited in what I thought was important.

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You can make a Mobius easy with a strip of paper, if you twist it where it joins.. If the track was something the car could run on both sides of (the top side and the bottom side) then it could still traverse the track as long as gravity was ignored, but it would end up running both sides of the tra...

So, Jeremiah grabbed one of his toy cars when he was abducted--a red one. SRD made the point of mentioning he was still clutching onto it when he was sommonsed to the Land. Now, the toy car was part of the race-track set Linden got him, but he'd never played with it, and instead, used the track-piec...

Yeah you're right. but it would still be a neat surprise if they showed up sometime.

Lytton's probably going to be likable, eventually, in a Castellan Lebbick sort of way.

While Linden is in the process of being summoned, the text says clearly that Sandy and Sheriff Lytton are not being summoned to the Land. Could you provide the quote? I don't recall this being dealt with at all in the summoning. Also, is it an objective statement, or subjective belief or speculatio...

Well, Saddith did have her good points, too. She, along with Argus, Ribuld, etc.. was one of Terisa and Geraden's friends and as long as you were in no real position of power, she had no ulterior motives against you, and treated you like a buddy. Also, along with the rest of Geraden's friends, Saddi...