[2033] Goose Bone and Lake Water

[dortieroo]

I have the strangest feeling that, when we do eventually get back to Parley and Smits, we're going to find one of them somehow lost either the bone or the water, be it intentionally or unintentionally. With Coyote's reputation as a trickster and the seeming irrelevance of his long, dry story, it wouldn't surprise me if one of his gifts got written off as a joke.

[saardvark]

Aug 29, 2018 8:17:05 GMT fjodorii said:

There could be an elemental thing here: Coyote warned Annie the tooth blade could cut the very earth. Maybe that was more than just a dramatic example. Now we also have water being somehow important. Annie herself is fire. All we need now is an air bender to make things complete and set off an escalation.

If you are on the right track (#2): there is a parallel to the "goose/bush/lake" story... goose=air=goose-bone/ bush=earth=tooth-knife/ lake=water=Coyote-sauce,  lacking only fire/Annie to complete all four elements.   Coyote may have been hinting at this through his long, boring, but only apparently pointless "goose" story.  Is this the alchemical formula to reconstitute a Coyote?  Though since he is part of Loup, perhaps bringing the elements together is the means to a power capable of separating Loup into his constituent beings?

[Runningflame]

Aug 30, 2018 12:34:17 GMT saardvark said:

the alchemical formula to reconstitute a Coyote

Quotes like this are why I love Gunnerkrigg Court.

[ohthatone]

If the memory is about the tooth that would explain why Coyote insisted on the binding when Annie went into the forest--so she could never mention the tooth and give anyone else the memory of her having it. But if that's true that's awfully trusting that she wouldn't mention it after the binding was released.

[fia]

Okay second thought for the strip: the goose bone has 'power lines' on it that more resemble Ysengrin's power lines (also see here) than Coyote's.

One complication is that lots of things in the ether have power lines like those. But I still find it notable, insofar as the Coyote-water looks actually Coyote-like (maybe it's Coyote's blood?...) while the bone just looks like a bone with power lines.