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Post by fia on Oct 6, 2020 17:28:34 GMT
Perhaps also relevant: The metaphysics of Heraclitus, who believed everything is made of fire, and that opposites are unified. "This world, which is the same for all, no one of gods or men has made. But it always was and will be: an ever-living fire, with measures of it kindling, and measures going out." "All things are an interchange for fire, and fire for all things, just like goods for gold and gold for goods." Heraclitus' view would explain why Annie is so central in this story, as someone with fire-elemental ancestry. Would explain why fire-elementals get a crown, and why she 'attracts' so many etheric beings. Perhaps?
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Post by warrl on Oct 6, 2020 19:05:01 GMT
"All things are an interchange for fire, and fire for all things, just like goods for gold and gold for goods." Einstein said much the same thing in different words.
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Post by saardvark on Oct 6, 2020 20:37:32 GMT
I know this seems random, but I keep thinking about the crowns each of the Annies are wearing. Forest Annie has a crown with red in the front, and Court Annie has a crown with a red tip to her right. I'm starting to suspect that there will be a third (and possibly a fourth) Annie. First off, alchemy generally requires ( see the Mutus Liber) dividing and then concentrating a substance through repetition of a chemical process. And according to ancient alchemy, Gold was made of four elements together. So far the Annies might represent two? Are we missing two more? Is Kat a third one? Or is she the alchemist, not an element herself? Or Kat could be the other two elements, as herself (the alchemist) and as the Techno-goddess-in-making.
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Post by jda on Oct 8, 2020 6:47:28 GMT
Preparation of the [Sophick] Mercury for the [Philosophers'] Stone by the Antimonial Stellate Regulus of Mars and Luna from the Manuscripts of the American Philosopher. A book by Isaac Newton.
That explains a lot (not?)
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Post by fia on Oct 8, 2020 13:36:07 GMT
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Post by Sauzels on Oct 10, 2020 3:23:55 GMT
As I was going back through the comic, I realized that the black and white figures on the left here bear resemblance to the two figures on the fifth treatise. So the lighter figure is almost definitely Robot, imo. (Although they are on opposite sides than on 5, which seems significant)
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Post by Gulby on Oct 10, 2020 20:13:42 GMT
I thought this was just a very exaggerated and legendary-like version of the dispute between Iylu and Red. Like, red and blue, really, nothing else to see. But maybe you're right and it was massive foreshadowing too.
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