4/4/2023 0 Comments Min wheel of timeMin saved the Seanchan’s contribution from being sabotaged by the Shadow by exposing Moghedien, another Morrigan parallel. Elayne accepted Mat’s plan to lose ground to the Shadow while waiting for the right moment to take the victory, after he explained to her that the Shadow would see through any false pretences. Elayne’s armies were sabotaged in this way by Graendal’s Compulsion of the Great Captains. The Nemain aspect of Morrigan confounds armies, so that friendly bands fall in mutual slaughter. In her harbinger of doom aspect, Badb is like Min, especially when she takes the form of an ugly hag and prophesies someone’s death, and also when she is the washerwoman at the ford cleaning the clothes of the doomed: seeress Min was forced to do laundry in Salidar, notably that of Gareth Bryne, whose doom she foretold, and who was indeed a doomed warrior. Badb is an active participant in war, using magic to cause fear and confusion among soldiers, as is Aviendha, former Maiden of the Spear. A couple of legendary Irish women named Macha also have parallels with Elayne (see below). The sovereignty goddess Macha was called the “sun of womanfolk” and Elayne, queen of two nations, is a very solar character (see below). Badb-Macha-Nemain who comprise the Morrigan, an Irish sovereignty goddess associated with the fertility, prosperity and protection of the land, fate and war.Three-fold goddesses, demi-goddesses or legendary queens with parallels to Aviendha, Elayne and Min include: Yet they are not confined to one role, and as they grow they show aspects of the other phases as is proper for character growth and development. Each of Rand’s lovers epitomizes one of these roles: Aviendha, former Maiden of the Spear, pregnant Elayne as Mother, and seeress Min as the Crone, since she will age before the others. The triplicity of the Goddess as maiden, mother and crone symbolises the waxing, full and waning phases of the moon, respectively, as they reflect the light of the sun, Rand, Sol Invictus. Three is a number of harmony, strength and productivity, and Rand, the Chosen One, draws comfort from the strength of the three women’s emotional support, and also their harmonious relationship with him and with each other. They have a certain significance that resonates to us. The trinity, trio, the cycle and multiples of three…These are simply things that, numbers that, turn up again in mythologies in a lot of countries. You see there are cycles which I think are archetypical. Yet triple goddesses or queens as the archetypal feminine are widespread in Western culture: the three Norns of Norse myth, the three Fates and three Furies of Ancient Greek mythology, and also the three Maries in the New Testament. In later drafts of The Eye of the World and The Great Hunt, Jordan expanded his story to a more global mythos and symbolism. Two of her important guises are the three Guineveres of Arthurian myth and the maiden-mother-crone Morrigan of Irish myth. Jordan’s original story outline was largely Celto-Arthurian (see Arthurian legend parallels in The Wheel of Time), and the Goddess of the Land is intrinsic to Celtic Mythology. The women and the world need the Dragon to confront the Dark One, sacrificing nearly everything to seal the deity away Rand needs their support to endure the world’s suffering and reach that confrontation. On an archetypal or alchemical level, the Dragon, who is one with the Land, partners with the Goddess of Sovereignty, also known as the Goddess of the Land or the Mother Goddess, in her three-fold aspect to restore order and balance to the Pattern and fertility and health to the Land by fighting off evil. On one level, the witches-two magic users and a seeress-mutually agree to a polyamorous relationship with the Light’s champion. Three witches, three empowering women, three lovers of the Dragon. "I knew it would come the day I first met him.
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