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The new thought was the arrangement of the letters as a palindrome. Martin mirrors things in so many different ways. But yes, Satin, sin, assassin, Stannis, Sansa —-I can’t wrap my head around a single motif that makes sense. Nissa Nissa looks like an echo Sorry just loose thoughts

I feel like this is an under developed thought but here it is… Here’s my newest discovery nissassassin(A palindrome) If you divided it perfectly in half you would have nissas sassin (notice they are mirror reflections of each other). You might say it’s a “Nissa” with an “s”. A “Nissa” with an “s” is “Nissas”is plural for “Nissa” or “Nissa Nissa” “nissassassin” Take away the “sin” off either side backwards and forwards and you get assassin backwards and forwards. There’s certainly more here somewhere

In a previous post I mentioned Will’s dirk paralleling a direwolf pup with theses two passages. Here Will has climbed into a Sentinel tree and unsheathed his dirk to place into his mouth. He opens his mouth to call down a warning and the dirk must have fallen. The continuation of this hidden narrative comes in ASOS the first Samwell chapter 18. I mentioned before that we were seeing the birth of a direwolf pup. Now I believe we are seeing the delivery of “Ghost” the direwolf pup. And I don’t mean delivery in a traditional sense. In the last quote it was “snow” that fell. “Snow” as in bastard also.(There’s the wordplay:)) Ghost, like Jon, is a bastard. To my mind, the dirk in Will mouth is symbolic of Ghost in the mouth of the mother direwolf. Ghost was born before his litter mates, that’s why his eyes are already open. The other litter mates are symbolized by the “Fear that filled Will’s gut like a meal he could not digest.”

Some wordplay Born / borne/ bear/ bare Borne is, just like born, the past participle of the verb bear, which can mean (among other things) "to contain" or "to give birth to." At first, borne and born were variant spellings of the same adjective. Used as in water-borne (or water-born), it means "carried by." In the Prologue of AGOT Martin develops the idea about the birth of the direwolf pups using some figurative language. Will’s dirk is symbolic of a pup as it falls out of his mouth( a symbolic birth) from the sentinel tree, an old God. Here Will puts his dirk in his mouth, “He whispered a prayer to the nameless gods of the wood, and slipped his dirk free of its sheath. He put it between his teeth to keep both hands free for climbing. The taste of cold iron in his mouth gave him comfort.” Life begins with a fall. Here it falls out, “Will opened his mouth to call down a warning, and the words seemed to freeze in his throat.” Then the next time we read about the Others we get this: ”The lower branches of the great green sentinel shed their burden of snow with a soft wet plop.” (A Samwell 1 chapter in ASOS) This quote shows, figuratively, the birth of a pup. Now compare those “lower branches” to these lower branches from AGOT, Prologue. ”The great sentinel was right there at the top of the ridge, where Will had known it would be, its lowest branches a bare foot off the ground.” So bear/ bare/ borne/ born… I believe a foot and lower branches are lower limbs and roots (family roots)

Waymar’s and the Other’s swords According to Craster, in ACOK a Jon chapter 23, Waymar’s Sword was black steel. And it was became “white with frost” during Waymar’s dance with the Other’s sword, AGOT Prologue. The Other’s sword was a pale translucent shard of crystal that was alive with moonlight and it shimmered and danced with a faint blue ghost-light. AGOT, Prologue And the Other’s sword would have been covered in Waymar’s blood. Note that the droplets only “seemed red as fire”. That’s because of the Purkinje effect. The effect describes why reds will appear darker relative to other colors as light levels decrease, i.e. moonlight. For this reason Waymar’s blood would appear black on the blade of the Other’s sword. So we have two swords, One black sword (Waymar’s sword) with the blade half white. One white sword (Other’s sword) with the blade half black. Picture those two swords meeting. Perfect contract! Interesting??

Here’s some imagery that might match up with that idea. Picture Waymar’s body “face down” with “one arm out-flung” in the snow. (Black on white) in the middle of 12 “watchers”. The text even references Waymar’s face by saying “face down”. Think clock-face or watch-face. The math here is 3 + 4 + 5 = 12. I think, like he seems to love doing, that Martin is being ambiguous to allow for multiple meanings. In the text, we read “The thick sable cloak had been slashed in a dozen places.” One stabby whabby apiece. His face even had runes on it. Earlier, Will responds to Waymar’s question about how many watches he has drawn? To which Will says, “There never was a week when he did not draw a dozen bloody watches.” ( It’s odd because Will has been “ranging” the past week). This seems to foreshadow Waymar’s situation. In Waymar’s bloody situation there are a dozen watchers that draw and in Will’s response to Waymar he drew a dozen bloody watches. Lastly, during the duel Waymar “came up snarling”. Certainly, this probably makes reference symbolically or figuratively to the mother direwolf. However, again Martin likes ambiguity. Iron snarling is a metallurgy technique of embedding, here clock symbols, into metal. Metallurgy is a theme early on in the Game of Thrones. Perhaps we should ask Waymar what time it is. I’m not sure about Hightower. It’s probably a thing. Waymar did tower above Will and Gared.

This idea also matches up with the pale shapes they surround Waymar while using their “pale blades” they slice through Waymar’s ringmail “as if it were silk.” Even their voices that Will heard were like “laughter sharp as icicles.” “It was cold butchery.” Harp and sickles seem to be some words at play here. I believe when you see Jon go beyond the pale it’s an action that parallels the birth of Ghost in the Prologue. Like Jon, Ghost is a bastard. Ghost was carried in the mouth of the mother direwolf I think while the other pups are of the womb.

Word play Li’ pup I think I have a good thought. When two reflective things face one another (picture two large mirrors) the idea of infinity comes to mind. Like a mirror, an eye is also reflective. I believe we are seeing a mirror and an eye come together with some nice little word-play at the of Waymar’s duel. Eyes in AGOT, Prologue are described like gems. And gems often symbolize stars. In the Prologue of AGOT, Ser Waymar Royce’s Long Sword that shattered had jewels (plural) that glittered in its hilt. Later, in ADWD Jon XII, a member of the free folk seems to have found a broken sword hilt. Long ago, someone noticed this and understandably assumed it once belonged to Ser Waymar Royce. The broken sword hilt had three sapphires. A long swords, so-called for its long hilt, is traditionally fashioned in the shape of a crucifix. (symbolic of death and rebirth) This allows the user to use one or both hands on the sword in battle. The arrangement of three sapphires on the hilt, most likely, is evenly spaced on the cross guard. Google “Narsil” the broken sword from LOTR and look at the images. A sword like that “trembling on high” against a clear night winter sky is a clever way for Martin to draw our attention to Orion’s Belt in my opinion. I mean Martin is literally shaking the sword against the sky. (In our narrative it’s called “The Sword of the Morning constellation”) Those stars are best viewed in the early night sky during the Northern Winter. This black sword (A constellation) would be located just above the ice wall (an ice sword) another symbolic sword. “As above, so below”, says the old maxim. The three, easily identifiable, evenly-spaced stars of Orion’s Belt (The sword of the Morning) match up precisely with the number of blue eyes in the chapter. Martin even states this about the Other’s eyes, “They fixed on the longsword trembling on high,…”, key word “fixed”, as in mounted. The three sapphires are literally paralleling Orion’s Belt. This is precisely what caught the Other eyes. They “fixed” on the hilt that matched near perfectly with the star directly behind it. The same blue eyes with a description that sounds like stars, “…its eyes; blue, deeper and bluer than any human eyes, a blue that burned like ice.” and “The pupil burned blue.” Note: en tremblant is also a gem setting Note: Also, Diamonds are a gem nicknamed “ice”. A little known fact, Orion’s sword was once identified as the Mirror of Venus or Venus’ mirror. Thus, waymar‘s sword paralleling Orion’s sword (The Sword of the Morning) could be seen as shattering like a mirror symbolically. In the main narrative Waymar’s Sword I believe is made of martensite, a form of carbon steel especially hard and brittle produced by undercooling during the forging process. (Side note: It’s interesting that Waymar’s cloak, made of little furry Martens, comes together and his sword, made of martensite, shatters.) The cloak symbolizes many deaths with, and the sword symbolizes birth. The birth being the word-play I wanted to share. “Pupil”(eye) where the reflective shard or the shining steel ends up is also reflective at the moment just before impact. Like when two reflective things face one another (picture two large mirrors) the idea of infinity again comes to mind. Using your minds eye hold the book to a mirror. Read the leaf until you see the word “pupil”. In your minds eye you’ll see “liquq”. Truth, one would have to mind their ”p’s” and “q’s”, an old idiom, to get it right. Typesetters often confused the two similar-looking letters. In this case, if the typesetters get it wrong we end up with lipup or li’pup. Short for little puppy. Look at this quote again, Now we have an injured eye(symbolic gem) that is trans”fixed” with the sword shard. Not eyes fixed on a trembling sword. “Trans” is a prefix meaning across, beyond or through. “Trans” can also suggest gender neutrality. Li’ pup - “…blind white…” Ghost!? I think so. “Left” also symbolically lines up with our little bastard according to Gared’s little finger. The two ears and three toes line up with the Other pups. “Three male, two female.” “His fine clothes were a tatter, his face a ruin.”, Also presents a lot of symbolism but I don’t think I need to cover that here. In summary, we have a shining steel reflective shard entering into Waymar’s eye(also reflective) creating this sense of infinity. We get a blind white Ghost … Sorry for the long explanation. The word-play on pupil would be otherwise easy to disregard.

I don’t know. Besides the obvious similarities in sound what other connections are you seeing ?

To further your thoughts about annealing/“kneelers”. I found another metallurgy term last night. It seems to be presented in the same fashion that Waymar‘s sable cloak presents a marten, a small weasel-like mammal. It’s certainly no coincidence that our author uses a small weasel-like mammal bearing his name. The small weasel-like mammal, a sable, which Martin describes as soft as sin uses some wordplay. The words “As sin” combined are assin. Assin spelled in reverse is Nissa. Nissa is one half of Nissa Nissa’s name. This is certainly intentional. (Bonus thought: combine “assin” with an “ass” , like Jon calls Theon, and we get an assassin) Annealing’s definition (as I’m sure you know) The opposite of that is a metal that is hard and very brittle and tough to work with. It’s a metal that is produced by the rapid cooling or quenching of the alternate form of iron at such a high rate that carbon atoms do not have time to diffuse out of the crystal structure. Now think of Waymar’s sword. We know from ACOK, a Jon Chapter 23 We have Craster talking to Lord Mormont and pointing out Waymar’s sable cloak and black steel. (Bonus thought: Waymar‘s sword must have been unsheathed for Craster’s to know it was black steel) The Waymar’s black steel sword in AGOT Prologue Here I think we see Waymar’s sword being quenched as it seems to mirror the actions in the very next paragraph. Here’s the very next paragraph: “White with frost” and “red as fire” on two opposing blades. The point I’m making is that Waymar’s sword also found it’s mark. It found it’s mark in… …some watery armor. The way I see it is we have a symbolic rapid cooling or quenching of the alternate form of iron at a high rate. (Bonus thought: “high rate” or “cast rate”). This produces Martensite! That right another bit of self-promoting workplay;) This could well explain why the sword shatters. (The next questions would be who made this sword and why?) A material that again provides a call back to our authors name. He’s so clever:) Additionally, Waymar’s sword can also be linked to the Azor Ahai Prophecy: Those icy eyes “fixed”, as if mounted light blue sapphires, on a trembling sword. That trembling sword is “on high” or Ahai at that moment. Like I stated earlier, It seems Martensite is presented in the same fashion that Waymar‘s sable cloak presents a marten. And the both sword and cloak present 1/2 of the names for Nissa Nissa and Azor Ahai. Certainly it’s all no coincidence. As you pointed out “cloak(sable/marten)and dagger(cold black iron/martensite)” (Bonus though: “Azor” is represented by the Other sword through some wordplay) “Annealing” - a process opposite of that which produces Martensite.

Lol….I love it. A river of thoughts. Liking all of it, my favorite of the bunch is : Immediately, I looked up the definition for cope. And… There are more definitions but this one goes along with the idea of that “bishop’s cloak”. (I’m sure Martin has made use of all the other definitions too). The part of this definition that stands out to me is, “especially of silk”. The ringmail worn by Waymar described as, So Waymar’s ringmail is soft and supple and like silk when sliced by pale blades. In this scene, “there was no ring of metal on metal” or written differently (a little wordplay)- there was (no-ring-of-metal) on metal. (So, the ringmail is figuratively not metal if we compare it with Waymar’s sword). Swords and armor are made of the same basic elements in this scene. Looking again at the first quote describing Waymar’s ringmail, “layers of black wool and boiled leather.” So in the order of it’s donning— Wool, leather, rings(not metal, soft like silk). Wordplay- donning and dawning/ don and dawn doff( the inverse of don )-“to remove or take off, as clothing” Night (the inverse of dawn) doffing those night black garments in order: rings, leather, wool So if we take off the garments but keep the order of the dawning we see Hair, skin, rings(vulva) Those are new thoughts Seams (except for: “no-ring-of-metal”). “Silk” cleared the haze. This ties into some old thoughts that I have yet to share. The first “pale sword” that bit through the ringmail” produced blood that “seamed as red as fire”. It “seamed as red as fire” because blood in the moonlight is black. So it looks like we have moon blood coming from the rings. Menstruation can be called moon blood or moon's blood. And so it appears that pregnancy has not occurred. But Waymar has come of age. More swords please…. “Cloak and daggers”, as you said. Lastly, “drag”. I wanted to make sure that you thought of it as an inversion, imprint, impression of the actual object being cast. That’s why I said “Gared” is symbolically one aspect, the “de-raG”( Gared spelled backwards), of a sword mold. North of the wall he is literally Gared. South of the wall he’s figuratively a drag. North of the wall he was shell-shocked and South of the Wall he is a shell of his old self. I think that’s why we don’t actually see his name used by Martin in Bran 1.

Thanks for the comment. Was I convincing enough about Gared and Will as the drag and cope for “Ice”? I’m current reading back over some of your thoughts on “deserters” and “daggers”. I love lots of your stuff. I think writing come easy to you. You ask great questions. As for this question: I’ve only picked up on the Night swatch/Night’s watch wordplay so far. But, I think I have some goods thoughts that might help you move forward with your ideas about this question: You asked, “What is GRRM doing with the bucket and pale references here?” In the Prologue, AGOT the “pale shapes” that surround Waymar are your “palisade” or “fence”. You also noted that, “When Jon Snow slips between the stakes to go outside of the fort, he is going "beyond the pale.". In the same Prologue, the dirk deserts Will’s teeth when he attempts to “call down a warning, and the words seemed to freeze in his throat.”, is symbolic of the direwolf pup Ghost(another pale shape). I believe we are seeing the birth of Ghost here. Here’s this from ASOS, Samwell chapt. 18: You mentioned that “In a previous Jon POV (AGoT, Jon VIII), Jon carried a bucket full of bloody meat.”. This seams to parallel the bloody meat centered between the “pale shapes” or “watchers”in the Prologue. Here’s the quote: And, Maester Aemon does seam to know something about a broken sword and Will glimpses a symbolic raven. And to commet to the idea that you have about magical places. I say YES!, in the Prologue I believe this is a mirror-like portal to an alternate reality. It seams to open only at a certain time or turn of the page. And lastly, to your question about, “But what does it mean that Jon Snow has no pail (bucket) or that he goes beyond the pale in this chapter?” I think it means that he is going alone with no “pale shapes” to accompany him. Did I give any help? I’m also rereading your Theon= Ice theory. Do you have more or new thoughts on that? My thought, very obscure, are that Nissa Nissa/ Azor Ahai are two pair of aspects, four altogether. Waymar’s broken sword might be proof that another pair will be forged or brought forth. My post needs a lot more edits I think I see a connection with your idea about deserters and “red trees”. I have a real tinfoily idea that I’m too embarrassed to post. But I like it nonetheless. I’m working through “daggers” right now. The mossy rock and the weirwood tree and black water from the Ned and Cat Godswood scene are some other ideas I’m working on also. Waymar’s cloak is a motif I’m trying to decode. It’s “soft as sin”(Nissa backwards). “Crowning glory” sounds like birth, “brought forth”. Gared was the fourth beheading this year for Ned and “Ice” Ragging is also another term used in metallurgy. cast / Craster / castrated / cast rated - are another set of words with lots of play. sorry if these thoughts are not well worded. It’s hard to get them out of my head and I don’t have much extra time to edit.

Drag / derag / rag / ragged / dagger / Gared / tattered / NW / swatch Some wordplay I found a few weeks ago….When Catelyn finds Ned in the Godswood. She is reflecting on “what a strange people these northerners were”, as Ned comments on a man (Gared) who he had just beheaded that morning. The comment bringing Gared to mind sets us, the reader, up for the wordplay that follows. Ned is cleaning “Ice” then Martin initiates his wordplay. Here’s the quote from Catelyn 1: A swatch, like Gared, is part of the “Night’s Watch”. (Just get rid of the apostrophe and slid the “s” over) By definition a swatch is a sample of cloth or a rag. Considering the two words together, a night swatch could be another way of saying black rag or a sample of a black cloth. Gared’s fur, “ragged and greasy” are black; However, there’s another candidate that might symbolize the night swatch, sample cloth, that comes to mind. Waymar with his black sable cloak, from the AGOT Prologue, might also meet the requirements of the night swatch. The cloak is made of little tiny samples of black furry martins (an animal with the same name as our author). Gared does rag Waymar about it saying, “twisted their little heads off, our mighty warrior.”, while drinking wine and laughing in his cup with the barracks. (Picture wine spraying out of somebody laughing at a joke) I think this foreshadows Gared’s own beheading and the spilling of his wine(blood). And consider this, Waymar’s cloak ends up in “tatters”. “Tatters” is a word used to define “ragged”. This next quote comes from Bran 1, AGOT, before Gared’s beheading: I’ve posted before that our NW brother Gared and the sword “Ice” resemble each other in few ways. The wordplay here is ragged, as an adjective, describing Gared’s clothing (leather or furs) and ragged ,as an action, being done to “Ice”. As a verb Gared both ragged and was ragged by Waymar throughout the prologue. The only difference, as far as I can tell, is ragged the adjective and ragged the verb have a different number of syllables. Ragged the adjective is said with two syllables; while ragged the verb is said with one. Additionally, the prefix “de-“ occurring in loanwords from Latin (decide); also used to indicate privation, removal, and separation (dehumidify), negation (demerit; derange), descent (degrade; deduce), reversal (detract), intensity (decompound) could be used on the word “rag”. Consider this… if Gared and Waymar wanted to undo the ragging (verb w/ an object) they did on each other and apologize…we might consider that de-ragging. And if “Ice” is ragged (one syllable verb w/an object) by an oily swatch and we wanted to degrease it wouldn’t we de-rag it?. In both cases we can perhaps use the word “derag” to reverse the ragging action. I believe this will give some contexts to why Martin chose “Gared” as the name for our Night’s Watch deserter. Gared backwards is deraG. Derag also pronounced like drag. Interestingly, “drag” is a term used in metallurgy to name the bottom half of a casting flask, It’s one aspect of a horizontal mold, used in casting a sword. The top half is called the cope. Sword metaphors are abundant in ASOIAF. We see Gared’s sword in the Prologue, AGOT as a personification of him: …Gared was a short and ugly “old man, past fifty”. He was missing “Two ears, three toes, and the little finger off his left hand”. His alcohol consumptoms (His blood is described as red as summerwine, showing his blood alcohol) probably made his face discolored and sweaty, like his grip. His missing body parts resemble his nicked sword. His ear stumps, likely, symbolize the two trees in the Prologue. The tree themselves will become sword metaphors I predict. I believe the reason Martin only alludes to Gared and doesn’t straight out name him in Bran 1, AGOT is because, Gared, like lots of the figurative language on both the Southron and Northous side of the Wall it’s inverted. Gared is symbolically one aspect, the de-rag, of a sword mold. North of the wall he is literally Gared. South of the wall he’s figuratively a drag. Gared, the oathbreaker, also seems to be an inverse aspect of “Ice”. “Ice”, the sword will later be reforged into Oathkeeper and Widows Wail. Oathkeeper, Obviously, is the inverse of Oathbreaker. What about the inverse aspect, Widows Wail? There’s some evidence for that also. The POV, in the Prologue, Will is described as not being able to “wail”: I believe that this inverse relationship that both Gared and Will have with the sword “Ice” is enough evidence to suggest that they are figuratively the drag and cope aspects of the mold for “Ice”. Will is the top half and Gared is the lower half of the mold. Thus, “Ice” personifies Ser Waymar Royce. …lots more wordplay, “deserter”, “dragged”, “dagger”. To be continued… As you can see the two scenes are relative to one another and connected by blood. In both cases it’s Gared blood that connects the scenes. Lastly, we read that “Ice” was as wide across as a man’s hand; while Martin writes the swatch of oiled leather was in one hand. And Gared was “not much taller than Robb.”, while “Ice” was “taller even than Robb.” leather/furs and oiled/greasy are all synonyms. Bonus: And present at Gared’s beheading is Ned’s ward and Robb. And that night swatch, mentioned earlier, as symbolic of Waymar’s cloak is insofar as I can tell also symbolic of Ned’s ward/Robb and part of Waymar’s wardrobe.

To add more support to this idea. In the Prologue, AGOT I’ve noticed that the story of Adonis has been used as an allegory. Here it is: In the allegory: (One of the two trees in the Prologue ) Ironwood: Myrrha I’m not sure why the sentinel tree is not playing this role. However, most things on the wall seem to be inverted symbols. Perhaps the Ironwood simply makes a better cosmic tree of the underworld. *edit The trees follow the “ As above, so below “, motif. They are the same symbolically. Picture a tree of life with one tree above ground who’s roots are intertwined with a similar but opposite tree below ground. Thus, I think the ironwood stump and the mother direwolf play the same role in the next chapter. But that role will first pass through Waymar and the Other’s swords. The gnarled Ironwood is pregnant in this scene: The inverted parallel for this scene comes in the next chapter Bran 1. Ironwood stump. In the Prologue, AGOT Aphrodite makes a good wet nurse. To handsome Waymar. Lastly, it’s Gared who commits treason and is beheaded at the ironwood stump to stick with the major theme of giving a life for life. Myrrha-as it turns out is a resin used in making scented oils. The ones used on the dead. Perhaps the same smell of corruption on the mother direwolf. It’s also one of the gifts brought by the three Wiseman.

TL:TR Theon’s fate began with the curse that Jon put on him. I believe that uttering curses or swearing profanely means more than using obscene words in anger. They’re used for more than just emphasis. While conceived of as offensive they can invoke evil, cause disasters, injuries and destroy people or things. If a character utters impieties or speaks irreverently of a God or something sacred it could excommunicate or afflict them or things with a great evil. Should a priestly condemnation befall a person, doom and misfortune are sure to follow. Here’s a short list that I’ve started from AGOT Prologue and Bran 1: Will hears Waymar say, “Gods!” as he gains the ridge and slashes at a branch with sword. When Jon calls Theon an “Ass” after the deserters beheading. Robb swore, “The Others take his eyes,..” Theon exclaims, “Gods!” and calls the mother direwolf a “freak”. 1 of 4 Quoting the curse: Martin’s cursing, from what I can tell, is a self-stylized literary tool being used to foreshadow. Mere acts of uttering curses or swearing profanely have deeper meanings than just using angry obscene words. While sometimes used for emphasis and conceived of as offensive they can also invoke evil, cause disaster, injury and destroy people and more. If a character utters impieties or speaks irreverently of a God or things sacred to it they could be excommunicated or be afflicted with a great evil. Should a priestly condemnation befall a person, doom and misfortune are sure to follow. I have identified the use of some literary tools and deconstructed some word-play that I believe will allows us to look into the text more deeply where we’ll see some foreshadowing revealed. Here’s a short list of the words from AGOT, Prologue and Bran 1: When Jon calls Theon an “Ass” after the deserters beheading. Will hears Waymar say, “Gods!” as he gains the ridge and slashes at a branch with sword. Robb swore, “The Others take his eyes,..” Theon exclaims, “Gods!” and calls the mother direwolf a “freak”. Take a look at this quote with a curse word uttered by Jon AGOT Bran 1 “The head bounced off a thick root and rolled. It came up near Greyjoy’s feet. Theon was a lean, dark youth of nineteen who found everything amusing. He laughed, put his boot on the head, and kicked it away. “Ass,” Jon muttered, low enough so Greyjoy did not hear.” This is a funny one. If we look deep enough into the “ass” line we’ll see more than Jon’s simple characterization of Theon as an asshole. We’ll see Martin subverting the main narrative of the the text with a literal asshole. It’s pretty shitty, but lines that Martin invites us to analyze are actual ass lines, or figurative butt cracks….Looking deeply we find that figuratively there is an anus. The anus, an opening at the lower end of the alimentary canal, through which the solid refuse of digestion is excreted. (Anus is from the Latin word ānus ring, anus), plays into many ideas. Here anus, a clinical or sterilized, name for an asshole and the word we derive from Jon’s use of the word “ass” is what we are about to dive into. Lets take a short moment to explain the logic before moving on. This way you won’t feel like your being led down a rabbit hole or any other kind of holes for that matter. I have a few more points to make before arriving at the conclusion. So far, I’ve given you a quote and pointed out the cuss word. I’ve taken that word and given you the definition and, more importantly, an alternate name used for it. Then, I showed you some wordplay using some crude humor. Now I want to continue with the crude humor and wordplay and point out the use of a literary tool that introduces a planet which you will see is allegorical to the scene where we find the cuss word. I love how Martin thinks. It’s fun for me to think that Martin laid down these breadcrumbs for us to follow this path of logic and purposely sought a way to include you. Yes, you! You see, instead of just choosing any stinky old anus, one that Reeks, he chose your-anus. Feeling flattered? Congratulations and thanks for playing “your” or “ur” part in this metaphorical word-play. You have now become a homophone. Meaning, you are a part of something that sounds like something your not. “Ur”, part of “Your”, sounds like Ur-anus. And I don’t mean the sounds your-anus can make. Those little heinie hiccup, booty coughs, and butt burps are not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about Uranus the seventh planet from the Sun and third-largest in the Solar System. Let it be known that planets in ancient times were considered Gods by many. Additionally, the “ass” in our discussion has a name which means “Godly”. Yes that’s right, the origin of the name Theon comes from old Greek and means “Godly”. And anus, as noted earlier, means “ring” in Latin. So looks like your playing the part of a Godly ass or Lord of the “ring” if “U” prefer. Let’s thank Uranus everyone. Clap, clap, clap. So what is Martin doing and why? I suspect that considering a fundamental truth about the nature of the cosmos as a whole/hole allows us to inferred truths about human nature, and vice versa. There’s an ancient saying that says, “As above, so below”. It’s a quote often understood as a reference to the supposed effects of celestial mechanics upon terrestrial events. So here we find within our celestial drama-play comes a myth of a Greek primordial deity, Uranus. The story of Ur-anus, a popular one, is an allegory to the whole/hole beheading scene. I’ll explain, The myth of Your anus from Wiki: From here what needs to happen is a lengthy explanation of how this myth represents the figurative treatment of the main narrative. But I think that would detract from the general crappy tone I’m trying to set. So, fast-forwarding to my point, I believe Gared’s head is playing the role of one of Uranus’ balls, and like Uranus’ spilled blood and severed testicle, Gared spills his “wine”and loses his head upon the snow, the figurative sea. “His father took off the man’s head with a single sure stroke. Blood sprayed out across the snow, as red as summerwine. One of the horses reared and had to be restrained to keep from bolting. Bran could not take his eyes off the blood. The snows around the stump drank it eagerly, reddening as he watched.” Gared, who’s sword was a personification of himself in the previous chapter(as noted below), is figuratively Uranus’s dick here in this chapter. Gared is dragged by the guardsmen who together are the metaphorical flask or mold made up of a drag and a cope components. Gared is figuratively casting. And figuratively being castrated. Note: “It was a short, ugly thing, its grip discolored by sweat, its edge nicked from hard use,”…(Gared was short and ugly old man, who’s alcohol symptoms make his face discolored and sweaty, like his grip grip. His missing body parts resemble his nicked sword. His ear stumps, his crowning glory, symbolize the trees, The drag component of a cast is the bottom half of a horizontal mold used in casting a sword. The rating of the cast is the speed of the cast. What sword is being cast? I’d offer up Waymar, who was adamant about continuing on. “Adamant”, as in, “adamantine” A generic name for a very hard material, something unbreakable, shatterproof. It is what our “sickle” is made of. The point here is to understand the wordplay going on. “Castrated” or severed testicle and “Cast rated” or the speed of producing swords. If we “start back” in the prologue chapter, we will see the personification of swords and people into swords. Theon’s Ironborn status, coupled with the ironwood stump, make seemingly good metaphors for Theon as a blacksmith apprentice. That Ironwood stump would seem to be a good metaphorical anvil. The “cast” rating of Gared will be “hand” led by our “Smith” Lord. from the prologue and bridge have additional intended meaning to the testicle coming ashore. But bouncing off a thick root and rolling to Theon’s foot needed to happen for the sake of Martin’s clever and funny bit of foreshadowing. The idea that Theon kicks Uranus’ figurative genitalia while laughing foreshadows his own castration and treatment of his nuts. Essentially, what’s happening in this scene is Jon evokes a curse from the ass God down onto Theon.

Southron an inverted parallel of Northous

How about Waymar “marring the way”??

Can I get some help to expand this metaphor between LOTR and AGOT How about this for “Waymar”? Royce marred the way when he did this…, ““Gods!” he heard behind him. A sword slashed at a branch as Ser Waymar Royce gained the ridge. He stood there beside the sentinel, longsword in hand, his cloak billowing behind him as the wind came up, outlined nobly against the stars for all to see.” Should take the lords name in vain:) For fun picture this: The sentinel tree is Lord Sauron (“branches grabbed at his longsword and tugged on his splendid sable cloak”.) and Waymar is Isildur. Waymar’s broken sword makes a nice stand in for Narsil. Waymar cuts the “ring” from the sentinel’s finger:) Guess who the ring is….??? The ring is found by somebody who lives along time in a cave(Golem/Bloodraven). Uncle (Bilbo/ Benjen) gives the “ring” to (Frodo/Jon), who both happen to have a friend named Sam. Later, they meet up with (Pippin/Pyp) and (Merry/Grenn?) and go on a (grand quest/great ranging). The answer: Ghost!:) To further the metaphor: (Sauron/ Sentinel tree) Has his spirit leave him and is now represented by a “Burning blue eye”. The Two Trees of Valinor Laurelin and Telperion(Sun and Moon)/Ironwood tree and Sentinel Tree? (From AGOT prologue) The Destrier(From the prologue)/Ungoliant the giant spider. The Destrier was tied to it when it got struck by lightning (I’m sure that stung)and became the stump and ironwood bridge. His entrails were hanging out later in ASOS. Melkor / Other?? Mirkwood/ Haunted forest?? Soooo …..all Jon needs to do is take “Ghost to Mount Doom”.

How about this for “Waymar”? Royce marred the way when he did this…, ““Gods!” he heard behind him. A sword slashed at a branch as Ser Waymar Royce gained the ridge. He stood there beside the sentinel, longsword in hand, his cloak billowing behind him as the wind came up, outlined nobly against the stars for all to see.” Should take the lords name in vain:) For fun picture this: The sentinel tree is Lord Sauron (“branches grabbed at his longsword and tugged on his splendid sable cloak”.) and Waymar is Isildur. Waymar’s broken sword makes a nice stand in for Narsil. Waymar cuts the “ring” from the sentinel’s finger:) Guess who the ring is….??? The ring is found by somebody who lives along time in a cave(Golem/Bloodraven). Uncle (Bilbo/ Benjen) gives the “ring” to (Frodo/Jon), who both happen to have a friend named Sam. Later, they meet up with (Pippin/Pyp) and (Merry/Grenn?) and go on a (grand quest/great ranging). The answer: Ghost!:)

How about this for “Waymar”? Royce marred the way when he did this…, ““Gods!” he heard behind him. A sword slashed at a branch as Ser Waymar Royce gained the ridge. He stood there beside the sentinel, longsword in hand, his cloak billowing behind him as the wind came up, outlined nobly against the stars for all to see.” Should take the lords name in vain:) For fun picture this: The sentinel tree is Lord Sauron (“branches grabbed at his longsword and tugged on his splendid sable cloak”.) and Waymar is Isildur. Waymar’s broken sword makes a nice stand in for Narsil. Waymar cuts the “ring” from the sentinel’s finger:) Guess who the ring is….??? The ring is found by somebody who lives along time in a cave(Golem/Bloodraven). Uncle (Bilbo/ Benjen) gives the “ring” to (Frodo/Jon), who both happen to have a friend named Sam. Later, they meet up with (Pippin/Pyp) and (Merry/Grenn?) and go on a (grand quest/great ranging). The answer: Ghost!:)

The great sentinel was right there at the top of the ridge, where Will had known it would be, its lowest branches a bare foot off the ground. Will slid in underneath, flat on his belly in the snow and the mud, and looked down on the empty clearing below.(AGOT PROLOGUE)

Lord Eddard Stark dismounted and his ward Theon Greyjoy brought forth the sword. “Ice,” that sword was called. “brought forth” For”ward” Four”ward” Fourth”ward” Was Theon the fourth ward? Or was “Ice” the fourth sword? Theon= tool of the Gods (defined as) Is Theon Ned’s sword?