Ragnarok
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 6:58 pm
Guys, the introduction to The Real Story has a huge section on how the Gap stories related to Wagnerien takes on Norse mythos.
But as I read that intro, I was amazed how much of it seemed to also relate to Thomas Covenant and this series.
Read it again. I'm going to. I think he's plumbing this again.
We're dealing with Ragnarok. The Twilight of the Gods. (Notice the sun going out at the end.)
The only way this ends is in the destruction of the Earth.
But in Norse mythos, it is cyclical. Some of the gods return, indlucing Balder, the god of Light, and Honer (sp), the blind god who tricked by Loki into killing Balder. A couple three of Thor's sons. One or two of Odin's.
The Staff of Law, the original one, is too much a parallel to Odin's Staff Gugnir, in which he inscribes the bargains he makes. It is carved out of the World Tree.
Anyway, the other parallel I quickly see is that in Ragnarok, Jormungand comes and kills Thor, but is killed by Thor.
Jormungand is the Midgard Serpent, the world serpent.
The Worm.
But as I read that intro, I was amazed how much of it seemed to also relate to Thomas Covenant and this series.
Read it again. I'm going to. I think he's plumbing this again.
We're dealing with Ragnarok. The Twilight of the Gods. (Notice the sun going out at the end.)
The only way this ends is in the destruction of the Earth.
But in Norse mythos, it is cyclical. Some of the gods return, indlucing Balder, the god of Light, and Honer (sp), the blind god who tricked by Loki into killing Balder. A couple three of Thor's sons. One or two of Odin's.
The Staff of Law, the original one, is too much a parallel to Odin's Staff Gugnir, in which he inscribes the bargains he makes. It is carved out of the World Tree.
Anyway, the other parallel I quickly see is that in Ragnarok, Jormungand comes and kills Thor, but is killed by Thor.
Jormungand is the Midgard Serpent, the world serpent.
The Worm.