Love this format so much, the repackaging of the livestreams in smaller topical chunks. Wish they didn't demonitise the stream it came from, though. Wanted to give you assurance LML that people like me, whoever they may be, watch and enjoy both the long livestreams and the shorter videos and have equal appreciation for them both. Always a good day when you drop a vid!
I agree it’s hard to sit through a whole live stream but if you shorten it to an hour long video with a specific topic is easier to watch. If it’s easier to watch then that means more watch time
@@SouthJerseyGhost77 Well, I wholeheartedly disagree that it's hard to sit through a livestream, but that may be the privilege of my position in life. Understand and agree with everything else, though.
@@HaldirMark i agree! I consume these at an alarming rate, I have no issue sitting through them at full length. Multiple cut up videos just make it easier to keep track of where I’m at if I do pause it 😁. My hope is that if one gets demonetized the rest may not whereas if the whole 4 hour vid gets hit it’s over
The relationship between the God-Empresses with two husbands and the rock/salt kings are great, but it may not just be literary parallelism, it may be that the practice had precursors in the GEOTD. Because, of course, we also see a third "monarch has two consorts" culture: the Targaryens and the conqureror, who represents a third strand of culture descended from the GEOTD. And of course, the dragon has three heads.
Japan had a very interesting dynamic in the past which was tensions between Shoguns and Emperors - with Emperors meant to be religious figurehead instead of a ruler and conflict between those two polars, which all this stuff with the Greykings and Rock Kings/ Driftwood and Ironborn clashes you talk about reminded me about that.
Interesting idea about Dany's dragon eggs coming from Asshai: if the eggs really are the ones that Alysa Farman stole, maybe they weren't actually pawned off by Alysa to buy the ships before leaving and were instead sold after she got to Asshai? We're told that she sold them to a Pentoshi merchant but maybe that was a tale spun to fool the Targaryens in case they tried following her Also, do you think there is more land between Asshai and Westeros besides the 3 Stop-Off Islands that Alysa Farman rediscovered? Obviously Ulthos is an island or something to the southeast and there's probably more land beyond Asshai and the eastern edge of the map that would be considered part of Essos still, but are there any islands or continents like the Americas or the Pacific islands? There's a Game of Thrones mod for Crusader Kings 2 and if you have the dlc that adds an Aztec invasion of Europe, a descendant of the Stark who sailed across the Sunset Sea attacks Westeros in the Sunset Invasion. I honestly prefer the canon version where he just disappears over the sea but an Aztec-based Sunset Empire who practices horrific blood magic by ripping people's hearts out sounds so on-par with ASoIaF
When life hands you Braavosi lemons, homie out here making lemonade. I regret missing the stream. I was there, just wanted to watch a 1.5x VOD. Gotta start showing up live.
So a connection I just made was between the driftwood crown and Jammie sleeping on the weirwood stump and seemingly tapping into the network or at least having magical dreams.
Could it be said that Westeros as a whole, at times, has somewhat of a rock king and a salt king? The Rock King being in King’s Landing and the Salt King being on Driftmark or Dragonstone or maybe even fighting in the Stepstones? Although it isn’t an intentional custom of the Westerosi, there often seems to be someone (having King’s blood) fulfilling the role of Westeros’ Salt King on one of those islands off the east coast. Stannis or Daemon Targaryen (the bad brother?), Visenya Targaryen, or an opposing house such as the Velaryons? Aurane Waters? Often the heir to the throne or the commander of the naval fleet is on one of those islands. Often someone very martial. Often a leal brother or heir. All while the Rock King is in King’s Landing. This would make Stannis’ resentment of being sent to Dragonstone quite interesting. On Driftmark, Lord Alyn Oakenshield Velaryon wrote “LOYAL” on his brother’s tomb! This seems to be GRRM shouting for us to notice!
27:35 we think Euron sailed from Asshai to Westeros the known route, but we don't know that, he may have as well came via the sunset sea. Maybe no one saw the direction from which he came, because he came back at night or something. I think Euron may have some power over the winds, he has storm god parallels, so he could have easily sailed via the sunset sea. Maybe it's even faster than sailing all the way from Qarth, which is where he know he was last.
i was actually just htinking about that... the only thing is that if he is also Urrathon Nightwalker in Qarth, it makes more sense he'd sail that way. He also claims to have been to Valyria. The fact he has those warlocks says he sailed y Qarth
Claiming descent from heroic legendary kings is quite common around the world. Th le Norse leaders of the "Great Heathen Army" who invaded the British Isles in the 9th century CE claimed to be the son's of the legendary sea-king Ragnar Lothbrok. Later kings of Norway claimed descent from Sigurd Snake-eye, who was Lothbrok's son and the grandson of the Sigurd who slayed Fafnir the dragon
The stuff with the salt and stone king makes soooo much sense! U really went on a deep dive and uncovered some true treasures! Thx so much guys. U and Tim make a great team ❤️
So i managed to listen to the first video 3 times aha including listening live and falling asleep, re listening falling asleep and then watching the new edited video...on to this one now! Im enjoying the added images...im here for all of it! Praise Garth! 🥦
I never really questioned why exactly the ironborn having salt and rock kings. It's especially odd considering their other 'values' don't seem particularly focused on sharing. The more of this analysis I see, Ironborn culture is getting more and more bizarre
So I was driving back from Fayetteville, NC to Michigan during the live stream. Figured it would save it for later. Pure heartbreak when it was gone lol
I forgot these were the livestream and get so upset at the cutoffs. Wish I had been live for the original streaming. Good work boys. I expect nothing less. When I’m not driving I’ll be back with some of my questions and observations.
This format is easier to understand and you could add more info that wasn't in the live... also more vids hopefully mean more $$$ 😀 Maybe Grey King is also because (1) unusual hair colour, (2) exceptional old age, (3) colour of iron, (4) mixture of Black+White / Rock+Salt? I've been wondering how the Queen of Sheba traveled all the way to Israel (2-3 years one-way!) and who would be in charge in the meantime... having a land and sea ruler makes sense. Also yey peace-loving mariners from thousand islands = Filipinos 🥰
I really enjoyed the stream, it was a great one! 🎉 And im loving the broken up vids ... this way the info is more easily absorbed! But that stream was so fun! If you are able to put it back up after you put out all these 4 vids, that would be awesome cos is was such a good time!❤😊❤😊
There is a tradition of "democracy" among a First Men culture: the Hill Tribes of the Vale have large councils where every individual can voice their thoughts. Tyrion remarks how it takes a long, long time. That could have been borrowed from the Children or developed after the Andals. I think it is important because the First Men were a melting pot of cultures and languages when the Andals gave them the title.
I think the iron islands is the only part i have trouble getting into with this sonderful world. However you two make it seem so interesting! The symbolism and history in just those islands are crazy in-depth
I only bring this up because I think you’d like to know ❤ 7:04 Loving the analysis, but Idk who told you that was the right way to pronounce archipelago, but I think they were messing with you. I went and double checked that I hadn’t been saying it wrong my whole life, but no, I was right. Arc-a-pel-a-go. It’s all good though, we’ve all mispronounced stuff at some point. Heck, I’m dyslexic and do this with unfamiliar words all the time! And with familiar words I’ve only read and never heard said aloud.
I was just thinking, if ASoIaF never finishes, David's videos will be the ramblings of a super fan. If the series does finish, David's videos are the foundation to a university course on 'Symbolism in the works of GRRM' lol
Just realised that the "Grey" of the Grey King would refer to his hair, since that Valyrian silver can tend into shades of grey and white- but it's usually the most obvious feature of Valyrian descent.
Isn't the election system more or less parallel in the Iron Islands Kingsmoot, the Wall and the Citadel? All weirwood places, controlled by the children of the forest in the begining, some like the wall even now? All places where Empire of the Dawn people intermingled with First Men?
It’s interesting that there are some examples of democracy in Westeros, which makes that part of the show ending not as inconceivable as some might think.
Maybe after Euron is dealt with Theon will become the rock king of the islands, and Asha will become the salt queen. Theon 's relationship with the Starks (a greenlands house ) and the old gods (land based gods) indicates his eventual suitability to govern the domestic affairs of the iron islands.
I watch your channel pretty much every night before bed. It would be cool if you branched into other stories too like Dune or Neuromancer maybe get into doing read throughs
Hi! There's this one question recently in my mind about the GEOTD and Yi Ti. So the second is a successor of the first, but at the same time Yi Ti seems to be very Chinese, and a lot about the GEOTD seems to be far from that, for e.g. when we talk about the looks of the people there. Could someone explain me this? :D
Question why was Orkmont the centre of power during the times of the driftwood kings. House Greyiron was based there and after them House Hoare was also from Orkmont. Wouldn't old wyk make more sence
An elective monarchy with priests being majorly involved in it unifying a relatively small (as far as the 7 kingdoms go) tribal society is just the early Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro The massacre at the kings moot by Urron red hand has the vibe of the Slaughter of the Dukes in Serbia, carried out by the Turks which triggered the Serbian revolution. I doubt that’s the inspiration, it’s almost certainly some Irish, Norse, or Scottish stuff, but the amount of possible Balkan history parallels here are interesting to me. Maybe it’s just historical pareidolia where everything reminds me of a field that interests me.
If anyone wants to hear another one of my theories regarding George's encodings of metaphysics, geometry and math within his story, then read this. You pointed out how there are 8 ironborn islands, each one with a Salt King and a Rock King, giving us a total of 16 kings. Well, the number 8 is symbolically used to encode the vertices or corners of a hexahedron, aka da CUBE. With there being 16, this infers 2 cubes. And the importance of double cubes in arcane lore is key to understanding the human mystery. And what brings it full circle is that both SALT and ROCKS are parallels used to portray the cube itself. Firstly there is SALT, which forms in cubic crystalline structures. It is also used in the Bible to encode the cube. Then there is the symbolism of the stone, which is not only used in the Bible to encode wisdom regarding the cube but also in Freemasonic lore with what is known as the perfect Ashlar stone. The cube is a universal geometry that encompasses the world's religions, occult sciences and mythologies. There's no wonder why George is using it here with the Ironborn. But I also want to point this out as well, which is why I think George is using it here. The crystal PYRITE also forms in cubic crystals and PYRITE as a word is similar to PIRATE. Which, is telling us about PI-RATIO which is embedded inside the cube itself. And if my memory serves me correctl, anytime you read a crystal name with the suffix -ite - the original pronunciation actually pronounced like "it". Instead of "Pi-Right" its "Pi-Ritt". George may be communicating another mystery here. Usually the doubling of the cube, like squaring the circle implies the alchemical marriage. So, hopefully this as a clue may help you to think of the "MARINERS" as primarily feminine. Since, the first men is the masculine half.
Hate to be that guy, but archipelago is pronounced ark-uh-PEL-uh-go, your pronunciation of it is better than it was but the emphasis in on ‘pel’ not ‘ark’. That being said, language is made up and we all know what you’re saying, so thing only matters if it matters to you.
Ginghis Khan is one of my special interests, so it’s great to hear about him on here. I love how the Iron Born are this massive amalgamation of warrior cultures from across history with all the fun of Cosmic Horror thrown in for interest. The show did them so dirty. Just another reason to dislike it. You and Tim are doing a great job with all of this.
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Love this format so much, the repackaging of the livestreams in smaller topical chunks. Wish they didn't demonitise the stream it came from, though. Wanted to give you assurance LML that people like me, whoever they may be, watch and enjoy both the long livestreams and the shorter videos and have equal appreciation for them both. Always a good day when you drop a vid!
Seconded!!
I agree it’s hard to sit through a whole live stream but if you shorten it to an hour long video with a specific topic is easier to watch. If it’s easier to watch then that means more watch time
You can also leave bookmarks like this 45:53
@@SouthJerseyGhost77 Well, I wholeheartedly disagree that it's hard to sit through a livestream, but that may be the privilege of my position in life. Understand and agree with everything else, though.
@@HaldirMark i agree! I consume these at an alarming rate, I have no issue sitting through them at full length. Multiple cut up videos just make it easier to keep track of where I’m at if I do pause it 😁. My hope is that if one gets demonetized the rest may not whereas if the whole 4 hour vid gets hit it’s over
The relationship between the God-Empresses with two husbands and the rock/salt kings are great, but it may not just be literary parallelism, it may be that the practice had precursors in the GEOTD. Because, of course, we also see a third "monarch has two consorts" culture: the Targaryens and the conqureror, who represents a third strand of culture descended from the GEOTD.
And of course, the dragon has three heads.
Japan had a very interesting dynamic in the past which was tensions between Shoguns and Emperors - with Emperors meant to be religious figurehead instead of a ruler and conflict between those two polars, which all this stuff with the Greykings and Rock Kings/ Driftwood and Ironborn clashes you talk about reminded me about that.
I freaking love real world traditions or myths being used to add extra context to great fantasy series
Yeah that tracks since the far east in planetos has inspiration from our own far east
Interesting idea about Dany's dragon eggs coming from Asshai: if the eggs really are the ones that Alysa Farman stole, maybe they weren't actually pawned off by Alysa to buy the ships before leaving and were instead sold after she got to Asshai? We're told that she sold them to a Pentoshi merchant but maybe that was a tale spun to fool the Targaryens in case they tried following her
Also, do you think there is more land between Asshai and Westeros besides the 3 Stop-Off Islands that Alysa Farman rediscovered? Obviously Ulthos is an island or something to the southeast and there's probably more land beyond Asshai and the eastern edge of the map that would be considered part of Essos still, but are there any islands or continents like the Americas or the Pacific islands? There's a Game of Thrones mod for Crusader Kings 2 and if you have the dlc that adds an Aztec invasion of Europe, a descendant of the Stark who sailed across the Sunset Sea attacks Westeros in the Sunset Invasion. I honestly prefer the canon version where he just disappears over the sea but an Aztec-based Sunset Empire who practices horrific blood magic by ripping people's hearts out sounds so on-par with ASoIaF
yeah I mean George wouldn't have decided what other lands there are, we just get to wonder
When life hands you Braavosi lemons, homie out here making lemonade. I regret missing the stream. I was there, just wanted to watch a 1.5x VOD. Gotta start showing up live.
one nice thing about editing the streams is I can cut out the digressions and make things easier to follow
So a connection I just made was between the driftwood crown and Jammie sleeping on the weirwood stump and seemingly tapping into the network or at least having magical dreams.
No better birthday present than Ironborn Week from LML!!! WE ARE HYYYYYYPE!!!
Happy birthday
Happy Birthday 🕯🎐🕯
Could it be said that Westeros as a whole, at times, has somewhat of a rock king and a salt king? The Rock King being in King’s Landing and the Salt King being on Driftmark or Dragonstone or maybe even fighting in the Stepstones?
Although it isn’t an intentional custom of the Westerosi, there often seems to be someone (having King’s blood) fulfilling the role of Westeros’ Salt King on one of those islands off the east coast. Stannis or Daemon Targaryen (the bad brother?), Visenya Targaryen, or an opposing house such as the Velaryons? Aurane Waters?
Often the heir to the throne or the commander of the naval fleet is on one of those islands. Often someone very martial. Often a leal brother or heir.
All while the Rock King is in King’s Landing.
This would make Stannis’ resentment of being sent to Dragonstone quite interesting.
On Driftmark, Lord Alyn Oakenshield Velaryon wrote “LOYAL” on his brother’s tomb! This seems to be GRRM shouting for us to notice!
Great question. It would be so interesting if they had these cultural similarities that neither group realises have common ground (no pun intended)
I don't think that's an intentional custom, no. It's really an Iron Islands thing
nice edits. hopefully this one doesn't get "demonized" too
dude clowny they demonetized the first produced one I put out two days ago! After saying the full stream was in fact okay! I'm losing my mind
@@DavidLightbringer yeah i was wondering why they did it in the first place. pretty wholesome stream all things considered
I think it's word rape that gets you demonetized. And I heard it left in this episode. Curious to see if that's it
27:35 we think Euron sailed from Asshai to Westeros the known route, but we don't know that, he may have as well came via the sunset sea. Maybe no one saw the direction from which he came, because he came back at night or something. I think Euron may have some power over the winds, he has storm god parallels, so he could have easily sailed via the sunset sea. Maybe it's even faster than sailing all the way from Qarth, which is where he know he was last.
i was actually just htinking about that... the only thing is that if he is also Urrathon Nightwalker in Qarth, it makes more sense he'd sail that way. He also claims to have been to Valyria. The fact he has those warlocks says he sailed y Qarth
Always good to see another Ironborn breakdown from the Lightbringer
Heckin good stream. 2 down & 2 to go another superior stream from Dave&Tim
Praise garth
❤️💚❤️💚❤️
Outstanding as usual guys; in awe of what you can both distill from the narrative!
Thank you for your work!
Claiming descent from heroic legendary kings is quite common around the world. Th le Norse leaders of the "Great Heathen Army" who invaded the British Isles in the 9th century CE claimed to be the son's of the legendary sea-king Ragnar Lothbrok. Later kings of Norway claimed descent from Sigurd Snake-eye, who was Lothbrok's son and the grandson of the Sigurd who slayed Fafnir the dragon
Yes! I have been waiting all week for this ❤
Now my favorite week of the year. Yall better make this a whole damn thing!!!
The stuff with the salt and stone king makes soooo much sense! U really went on a deep dive and uncovered some true treasures! Thx so much guys. U and Tim make a great team ❤️
So i managed to listen to the first video 3 times aha including listening live and falling asleep, re listening falling asleep and then watching the new edited video...on to this one now! Im enjoying the added images...im here for all of it! Praise Garth! 🥦
keeping me afloat over here
@@DavidLightbringer as long as ypur floating on a cloud of the devil's cabbage!
I never really questioned why exactly the ironborn having salt and rock kings. It's especially odd considering their other 'values' don't seem particularly focused on sharing. The more of this analysis I see, Ironborn culture is getting more and more bizarre
god DAMN I LOVE the intro music so much. SO FUCKING GOOD
So I was driving back from Fayetteville, NC to Michigan during the live stream. Figured it would save it for later. Pure heartbreak when it was gone lol
Lml you spent to much time with the cuts I assume but they are perfection and we adore you for it
I like this Galen white staff fella
Kinslaying you say Tolkien much?
Gandalf the White being taken already
Well played
you rule Dave and Tim!!!!!!
i'm just swimming thru all of your ironborn lore videos. love greywastetim too! great job and thank you both.
I had so much fun doing this series
These have been great vids
Thank you :)
I forgot these were the livestream and get so upset at the cutoffs. Wish I had been live for the original streaming. Good work boys. I expect nothing less. When I’m not driving I’ll be back with some of my questions and observations.
For the algorithm! Praise Garth
This format is easier to understand and you could add more info that wasn't in the live... also more vids hopefully mean more $$$ 😀
Maybe Grey King is also because (1) unusual hair colour, (2) exceptional old age, (3) colour of iron, (4) mixture of Black+White / Rock+Salt?
I've been wondering how the Queen of Sheba traveled all the way to Israel (2-3 years one-way!) and who would be in charge in the meantime... having a land and sea ruler makes sense. Also yey peace-loving mariners from thousand islands = Filipinos 🥰
Keep on rock king in the free world!
I really enjoyed the stream, it was a great one! 🎉 And im loving the broken up vids ... this way the info is more easily absorbed!
But that stream was so fun! If you are able to put it back up after you put out all these 4 vids, that would be awesome cos is was such a good time!❤😊❤😊
Great to see more of the discussion, I could only make an hour or so of the live stream.
Already watched the video, just coming back to boost engagement after hearing about your monetisation problems. Always love your content!
I find it amusing that Tim says "We've sung this song before" when talking about the ancient mariners.
Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Iron Maiden ;)
I love it.
That’s a cool discovery
Loving these chopped up Ironborn stream videos
Thank you guys!
Excellent thank you
There is a tradition of "democracy" among a First Men culture: the Hill Tribes of the Vale have large councils where every individual can voice their thoughts. Tyrion remarks how it takes a long, long time. That could have been borrowed from the Children or developed after the Andals. I think it is important because the First Men were a melting pot of cultures and languages when the Andals gave them the title.
oh that is interesting great observation
Loving these edited, shorter form livestream videos. Very slick, hope they're a bit easier for you to get out!
These guys only put out hits!!
,❤️❤️❤️
All this Ironborn lore has me so hard I'm afraid it may be greyscale.
oh david you’re so close! archipelago, stress on pel - ar-kih-PEL-uh-go.
I think the iron islands is the only part i have trouble getting into with this sonderful world. However you two make it seem so interesting! The symbolism and history in just those islands are crazy in-depth
❤ wonderful as always
First like! How many more of these? Hate I missed the stream
one more longer one next week :)
as ever, I love your work
This video really needs to do some numbers. Its so good
let it be done ~
I only bring this up because I think you’d like to know ❤
7:04 Loving the analysis, but Idk who told you that was the right way to pronounce archipelago, but I think they were messing with you. I went and double checked that I hadn’t been saying it wrong my whole life, but no, I was right. Arc-a-pel-a-go.
It’s all good though, we’ve all mispronounced stuff at some point. Heck, I’m dyslexic and do this with unfamiliar words all the time! And with familiar words I’ve only read and never heard said aloud.
I was just thinking, if ASoIaF never finishes, David's videos will be the ramblings of a super fan. If the series does finish, David's videos are the foundation to a university course on 'Symbolism in the works of GRRM' lol
Love this iron born series
Everyone knows that the greatest king of the Iron Islands was A-aron Badstudent.
Totally makes sence.
Any time David and Tim get together I know I'm in for a good time.
Just realised that the "Grey" of the Grey King would refer to his hair, since that Valyrian silver can tend into shades of grey and white- but it's usually the most obvious feature of Valyrian descent.
Love how clean this is! Feel like we are missing some of the in-between fun tho. 🤨 Stupid RUclips AI screwing everything up
Isn't the election system more or less parallel in the Iron Islands Kingsmoot, the Wall and the Citadel? All weirwood places, controlled by the children of the forest in the begining, some like the wall even now? All places where Empire of the Dawn people intermingled with First Men?
It’s interesting that there are some examples of democracy in Westeros, which makes that part of the show ending not as inconceivable as some might think.
Maybe after Euron is dealt with Theon will become the rock king of the islands, and Asha will become the salt queen. Theon 's relationship with the Starks (a greenlands house ) and the old gods (land based gods) indicates his eventual suitability to govern the domestic affairs of the iron islands.
good observation!
Have you mentioned the Valyrian-like names like Aeron and Urrigon? Could be thanks to a common ancestor-- the great empire of the dawn
I watch your channel pretty much every night before bed. It would be cool if you branched into other stories too like Dune or Neuromancer maybe get into doing read throughs
❤
arch-a-pel-a-go
Hi! There's this one question recently in my mind about the GEOTD and Yi Ti. So the second is a successor of the first, but at the same time Yi Ti seems to be very Chinese, and a lot about the GEOTD seems to be far from that, for e.g. when we talk about the looks of the people there. Could someone explain me this? :D
I'd vote for LML in the Kingsmoot 🌊👑
Do a Video on Brandon of the Bloody Blade
Question why was Orkmont the centre of power during the times of the driftwood kings. House Greyiron was based there and after them House Hoare was also from Orkmont. Wouldn't old wyk make more sence
Will we hear your thoughts on the HOTD s2 teaser, LmL?
Yes on tomorrow's stream 🫡
@@DavidLightbringer As always, you are the man!
An elective monarchy with priests being majorly involved in it unifying a relatively small (as far as the 7 kingdoms go) tribal society is just the early Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro
The massacre at the kings moot by Urron red hand has the vibe of the Slaughter of the Dukes in Serbia, carried out by the Turks which triggered the Serbian revolution. I doubt that’s the inspiration, it’s almost certainly some Irish, Norse, or Scottish stuff, but the amount of possible Balkan history parallels here are interesting to me. Maybe it’s just historical pareidolia where everything reminds me of a field that interests me.
Wouldn’t the Others need this dynamic as well? Perhaps Euron’s place is to be the Salt King of the Others and Jon the Rock King of the Others?
Mountains of the Moon Clans all allow free men and women to speak at council.
She takes 2 husbands because she has total WAP.😂😂😂
Honestly I think this is a a great theory, yours, not mine.
Sac for Rithm 🎉
Praise the Garth! 🌳
…and the almighty algorithm
Aye I’m one of the first commenters :D
Theon wouldnt need to advovate. He can claim that he is gelded, so he wont have successors to threaten others claims.
king kongsorts?
Ar•Chi•Pel•A•Go.. 😫
If anyone wants to hear another one of my theories regarding George's encodings of metaphysics, geometry and math within his story, then read this.
You pointed out how there are 8 ironborn islands, each one with a Salt King and a Rock King, giving us a total of 16 kings.
Well, the number 8 is symbolically used to encode the vertices or corners of a hexahedron, aka da CUBE. With there being 16, this infers 2 cubes. And the importance of double cubes in arcane lore is key to understanding the human mystery.
And what brings it full circle is that both SALT and ROCKS are parallels used to portray the cube itself.
Firstly there is SALT, which forms in cubic crystalline structures. It is also used in the Bible to encode the cube. Then there is the symbolism of the stone, which is not only used in the Bible to encode wisdom regarding the cube but also in Freemasonic lore with what is known as the perfect Ashlar stone.
The cube is a universal geometry that encompasses the world's religions, occult sciences and mythologies. There's no wonder why George is using it here with the Ironborn.
But I also want to point this out as well, which is why I think George is using it here. The crystal PYRITE also forms in cubic crystals and PYRITE as a word is similar to PIRATE. Which, is telling us about PI-RATIO which is embedded inside the cube itself.
And if my memory serves me correctl, anytime you read a crystal name with the suffix -ite - the original pronunciation actually pronounced like "it".
Instead of "Pi-Right" its "Pi-Ritt".
George may be communicating another mystery here. Usually the doubling of the cube, like squaring the circle implies the alchemical marriage. So, hopefully this as a clue may help you to think of the "MARINERS" as primarily feminine.
Since, the first men is the masculine half.
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Hate to be that guy, but archipelago is pronounced ark-uh-PEL-uh-go, your pronunciation of it is better than it was but the emphasis in on ‘pel’ not ‘ark’. That being said, language is made up and we all know what you’re saying, so thing only matters if it matters to you.
Ginghis Khan is one of my special interests, so it’s great to hear about him on here. I love how the Iron Born are this massive amalgamation of warrior cultures from across history with all the fun of Cosmic Horror thrown in for interest. The show did them so dirty. Just another reason to dislike it. You and Tim are doing a great job with all of this.
"Archipeligo" is pronounced "Arky-pelly-go".
google can teach you how to pronounce archipelago
If you’re gonna say, rock king, at least throw in a guitar riff
yasss... 420th like