I always thought this was meant to be one of the clearer lines of the Prophecy
CatherineSedai Send a noteboard - 26/11/2010 03:25:46 AM
Most of the prophecies can be broken down into three parts. 1) Things that are obvious. 2) Things that are completely oblique. 3) Things that sound obvious and turn out to mean something completely different.
In this case, "Twice dawns the day" has to be either a 1 or a 3.
I think it's a 1. I think the day of the Last Battle will have a total Solar Eclipse, and it's one of biggest Portents of the LB. If you try to draw "Armageddon" parallels from other Mythologies, you almost always find wild Astrological phenomenon, comets, eclipses, etc. Well, with all the cloud cover we can't see any of those smaller ones, but a total eclipse of the sun (Light) seems thematically appropriate.
In this case, "Twice dawns the day" has to be either a 1 or a 3.
I think it's a 1. I think the day of the Last Battle will have a total Solar Eclipse, and it's one of biggest Portents of the LB. If you try to draw "Armageddon" parallels from other Mythologies, you almost always find wild Astrological phenomenon, comets, eclipses, etc. Well, with all the cloud cover we can't see any of those smaller ones, but a total eclipse of the sun (Light) seems thematically appropriate.
Hello everyone !
A thought occured to me and I wanted to share it with my fellows RAFO-ers. I haven't seen it posted yet, but I may be mistaken... sorry if you've already seen and debated this
With the avent of the ring of light in the clouds above Rand, could the "Twice dawns the day" line refer to this phenomenon ?
For instance, consider the following chain of events :
1) Normal dawn, day has begun and Rand goes to SG (or breaks the seals). The clouds are there, as always...
2) During the final events (at SG, or after Rand breaks the seals), his ring of light in the clouds disappears, the clouds become even darker, bringing night in the middle of the day.
The disappearance of the ring of light may be due to Rand dying, doubting in the final confrontation or whatever else I didn't think of (lots of things I'm sure).
3) Rand finally overcomes and prevails in his struggle (against the DO, against despair, against Moridin I don't know) and gets back his ring-of-light-in-the-clouds-mojo. Sunlight appears again in the darkest hours and bham, second dawn.
Maybe this has been obvious to some of you all this time, but I hust thought of it :p
Comments ?
A thought occured to me and I wanted to share it with my fellows RAFO-ers. I haven't seen it posted yet, but I may be mistaken... sorry if you've already seen and debated this
With the avent of the ring of light in the clouds above Rand, could the "Twice dawns the day" line refer to this phenomenon ?
For instance, consider the following chain of events :
1) Normal dawn, day has begun and Rand goes to SG (or breaks the seals). The clouds are there, as always...
2) During the final events (at SG, or after Rand breaks the seals), his ring of light in the clouds disappears, the clouds become even darker, bringing night in the middle of the day.
The disappearance of the ring of light may be due to Rand dying, doubting in the final confrontation or whatever else I didn't think of (lots of things I'm sure).
3) Rand finally overcomes and prevails in his struggle (against the DO, against despair, against Moridin I don't know) and gets back his ring-of-light-in-the-clouds-mojo. Sunlight appears again in the darkest hours and bham, second dawn.
Maybe this has been obvious to some of you all this time, but I hust thought of it :p
Comments ?
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