The second head of Trios.

[Sandy Clegg]

In Braavos, three-headed Trios has a tower with three turrets.

1. The first head devours the dying
2. The second head ....  ???
3. The third is where those reborn emerge

One time, the girl remembered, the Sailor's Wife had walked her rounds with her and told her tales of the city's stranger gods. "That is the house of the Great Shepherd. Three-headed Trios has that tower with three turrets. The first head devours the dying, and the reborn emerge from the third. I don't know what the middle head's supposed to do. - The Ugly Little Girl

He also has a temple in Tyrosh. Penny's tale, ADWD:

We went to Tyrosh first. My brother thought that would be far enough, but it wasn't. We knew a juggler there. For years and years he would juggle every day by the Fountain of the Drunken God. He was old, so his hands were not as deft as they had been, and sometimes he would drop his balls and chase them across the square, but the Tyroshi would laugh and throw him coins all the same. Then one morning we heard that his body had been found at the Temple of Trios. Trioshas three heads, and there's a big statue of him beside the temple doors. The old man had been cut into three parts and pushed inside the threefold mouths of Trios. Only when the parts were sewn back together, his head was gone." - Tyrion VIII

What is the second head meant to do? Any thoughts?

 

[Wizz-The-Smith]

The Tree(os) has three heads! 

This sounds like the journey of a greenseer. Death and re-birth. Giving up ones life to go into the tree (death) Then reborn as a greenseer.

Perhaps the second head represents joining the hive mind or the greenseer training? 

Edited April 17 by Wizz-The-Smith

[Evolett]

19 hours ago, Sandy Clegg said:

What is the second head meant to do? Any thoughts?

Transformation.

Devours > Transforms > Rebirths

As illustrated here:

19 hours ago, Sandy Clegg said:

The old man had been cut into three parts and pushed inside the threefold mouths of Trios. Only when the parts were sewn back together, his head was gone." - Tyrion VIII

The old man is "devoured," transformed into three parts and reassembled, emerging changed, without his head. 

 

Maybe it has to do with the journey of a greenseer as @Wizz-The-Smith suggests. Another thought: could be a clue to the process by which the undead are revived? The souls of the dying are consumed, then transformed, and they are "reborn" witless, mindless, (symbolized by the old man's missing head), no longer in control of their actions, but controlled / absolutely obiedient to another, like the wights but thinking also of Gregor/Robert Strong here. 

 

 

Edited April 18 by Evolett

[Sandy Clegg]

4 hours ago, Evolett said:

The souls of the dying are consumed, then transformed, and they are "reborn" witless, mindless, (symbolized by the old man's missing head), no longer in control of their actions, but controlled / absolutely obiedient to another, like the wights but thinking also of Gregor/Robert Strong here. 

I was thinking it has to be a clue to the way the big 'magical processes' work too. It could equally be related to the Fire end of that spectrum, though. Dragon bonding rituals probably demand sacrifice, consuming one 'head'. 

[Evolett]

14 hours ago, Sandy Clegg said:

I was thinking it has to be a clue to the way the big 'magical processes' work too. It could equally be related to the Fire end of that spectrum, though. Dragon bonding rituals probably demand sacrifice, consuming one 'head'. 

I've also thought of Trios as a reference to "the dragon has three heads," perhaps to the riddle of the Sphinx - three body parts that are reassembled to a whole, though I'm not sure how the dwarf's missing head would fit into that idea unless the "Sphinx" receives a brand new head of it's own. This also follows the idea of transformation. 

 

[Sandy Clegg]

9 hours ago, Evolett said:

I'm not sure how the dwarf's missing head would fit into that idea unless the "Sphinx" receives a brand new head of it's own. This also follows the idea of transformation. 

One head is absorbed?

[chrisdaw]

It'll be about the Great Stone Beast and the process that makes it one of the false saviours (a shadow flame breathing lie).

[Phylum of Alexandria]

On 4/17/2024 at 5:53 AM, Wizz-The-Smith said:

The Tree(os) has three heads! 

This sounds like the journey of a greenseer. Death and re-birth. Giving up ones life to go into the tree (death) Then reborn as a greenseer.

Perhaps the second head represents joining the hive mind or the greenseer training

It makes me think of the three forks of the psi-trident (which I think are different weirwood bloodlines).

Remember that one of the prongs on the trident of Old Fishfoot in White Harbor was broken off. It doesn't specify the middle prong, but otherwise fits. The Titan of Braavos and Old Fishfoot both have heavy Garth parallels, so why not Trios as well?

Of course, my interpretation is likely colored by Crowfood's Daughter's recent video, which is about the cataclysmic poisoning of the weirwoods in Asshai. In that case, the missing/broken head of Trios would be the rupture and transformation of Team Green in Asshai into the nearly dead Shade Trees.

 

 

Edited April 23 by Phylum of Alexandria
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[The Gizzard of Oz]

On 4/17/2024 at 4:53 PM, Wizz-The-Smith said:

The Tree(os) has three heads! 

This sounds like the journey of a greenseer. Death and re-birth. Giving up ones life to go into the tree (death) Then reborn as a greenseer.

Perhaps the second head represents joining the hive mind or the greenseer training? 

The giant weirwood in Whitetree had human remains inside.  The two religions have the same ritual.  It doesn't work or else too many of the walking dead will be around but it is the  belief which gives the ritual importance.  Like a Catholic mass.  Do the wafers and wine really turn to flesh?  No but it is still practiced to this day. 

On 4/17/2024 at 2:59 PM, Sandy Clegg said:

In Braavos, three-headed Trios has a tower with three turrets.

1. The first head devours the dying
2. The second head ....  ???
3. The third is where those reborn emerge

One time, the girl remembered, the Sailor's Wife had walked her rounds with her and told her tales of the city's stranger gods. "That is the house of the Great Shepherd. Three-headed Trios has that tower with three turrets. The first head devours the dying, and the reborn emerge from the third. I don't know what the middle head's supposed to do. - The Ugly Little Girl

He also has a temple in Tyrosh. Penny's tale, ADWD:

We went to Tyrosh first. My brother thought that would be far enough, but it wasn't. We knew a juggler there. For years and years he would juggle every day by the Fountain of the Drunken God. He was old, so his hands were not as deft as they had been, and sometimes he would drop his balls and chase them across the square, but the Tyroshi would laugh and throw him coins all the same. Then one morning we heard that his body had been found at the Temple of Trios. Trioshas three heads, and there's a big statue of him beside the temple doors. The old man had been cut into three parts and pushed inside the threefold mouths of Trios. Only when the parts were sewn back together, his head was gone." - Tyrion VIII

What is the second head meant to do? Any thoughts?

 

A resurrection gone wrong is what it looks like.  A try that went awry.  

[Sandy Clegg]

On 4/23/2024 at 5:14 PM, Phylum of Alexandria said:

Remember that one of the prongs on the trident of Old Fishfoot in White Harbor was broken off. It doesn't specify the middle prong, but otherwise fits. The Titan of Braavos and Old Fishfoot both have heavy Garth parallels, so why not Trios as well?

This fits with the motif, yeah. The dragon has three heads, three forks of the trident. The Trident river's blue fork is much shorter than the red and green forks, but is hardly 'broken off' ... but might be relevant I guess? The blue fork ends (or begins) at Oldstones - a decrepit place with a sepulchre, formerly seat of House Mudd. So the imagery is all there of something 'long absent'. 

Too many sets of three in the books to go over them all really. Sigh.

[Frey family reunion]

On 4/18/2024 at 1:48 AM, Sandy Clegg said:

I was thinking it has to be a clue to the way the big 'magical processes' work too. It could equally be related to the Fire end of that spectrum, though. Dragon bonding rituals probably demand sacrifice, consuming one 'head'. 

I think this is basically it.  The first head consumes the one to be reborn.  The third head spits out the reborn.  The second head consumes the necessary sacrifice to "fuel" the process.  

My suspicion is that Rhaegar's conversation with Elia had very dark undertones.  When she asked Rhaegar if he was going to make a song for their son, that's a bit of a red flag.  Usually people have songs written for them after their death.  

In other words, was Rhaegar planning on sacrificing their son so his son could be reborn as a dragon?

And the reference to the third head, was the additional sacrifice needed to allow the transformation to occur? 

It's all a bit biblical.  The Valley of Gehenna.  The Kings of Judah "passing their sons through fire" in a religious sacrifice.  In other words, princes being passed through flames.  Prince's Pass.

[John Suburbs]

On 4/17/2024 at 5:53 AM, Wizz-The-Smith said:

The Tree(os) has three heads! 

This sounds like the journey of a greenseer. Death and re-birth. Giving up ones life to go into the tree (death) Then reborn as a greenseer.

Perhaps the second head represents joining the hive mind or the greenseer training? 

Interesting. And if the dragon has three heads: one for the dragon, one for the rider, and one for the collective mind they share . . . ?

[Northern Sword]

On 4/17/2024 at 2:59 AM, Sandy Clegg said:

In Braavos, three-headed Trios has a tower with three turrets.

1. The first head devours the dying
2. The second head ....  ???
3. The third is where those reborn emerge

Or reversed.

Your born, you live, and you die.