The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers

Mac, A T-Shirt, and the 1994 Unseelie Incursion

(1/6) > >>

raidem:
First off the T-Shirt:
The Tweet
https://twitter.com/PatrickRothfuss/status/874393135589326852

I'll include the T-shirt image separate from the tweet after I switch to Chrome.
T-shirt has symbols...Peace, and ?, maybe mjolnir or something.
It reads...
McAnnaly's Pub
Official neutral territory under the Unseelie Accords since 1994.

This coupled with the fact that the Unseelie Incursion in 1994 caused or was involved in the vanishing of Milwaukee makes me believe that Mac played a part in this event somehow. We have P-WOJ that Mac completed a midlevel questline that Mab herself created and that this led to Mac being granted neutral territory under the accords. The P-WOJ established that someone with many contacts within the supernatural world could possibly complete the questline. (P-WOJ paraphrased WOJ)

On another note, I'd say that the T-shirt suggests that the appropriate language of the sign for McAnnaly's Pub is ACCORDED NEUTRAL TERRITORY and not "GROUND".  That is if there is anything significant between the two.

One thing I would ask of you is to look at the T-shirt and try to figure out the second symbol at the top left of the logo.  The first I found is indeed a Peace symbol in Norse symbology. I had a hard time finding the 2nd symbol but it looks like a dual headed hammer or axe.

wardenferry419:
Try googling Labrys for the symbol, seems similar.

Kindler:
Looks like it might be the rune for "love." I think it's "peace and love," which I find hilarious.

raidem:
So we know from the T-shirt, if it's WOJ, that McAnnaly's Pub opened 1994.

Looking at that 2nd symbol, it is either Mjolnir or Labrys.
So, Peace and then a symbol of war.

It may, if Jim had a hand in creating the T-shirt, be a hint as to Mac's identity.
If the second symbol is Mjolnir, then it is likely he may be Thor or someone associated with it, his descendants.

If the second symbol is Labrys, then we need to research who identifies with it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labrys

--- Quote ---In the Near East and other parts of the region, eventually, axes of this sort are often wielded by male divinities and appear to become symbols of the thunderbolt,[9] a symbol often found associated with the axe symbol. In Labraunda of Caria the double-axe accompanies the storm-god Zeus Labraundos. Similar symbols have been found on plates of Linear pottery culture in Romania.[10] The double-axe is associated with the Hurrian god of sky and storm Teshub. His Hittite and Luwian name was Tarhun.[11] Both are depicted holding a triple thunderbolt in one hand, and a double axe in the other hand.[12] Similarly, Zeus throws his Keravnos to bring storm. The labrys, or pelekys, is the double axe Zeus uses to invoke storm, and the relative modern Greek word for lightning is star-axe (ἀστροπελέκι astropeleki)[13] The worship of it was kept up in the Greek island of Tenedos and in several cities in the south-west of former Hellenic Asia Minor, and it appears in later historical times in the cult of the thunder god of Asia Minor (Zeus Labrayndeus).
--- End quote ---
Based off that, the Labrys are often wielded by gods associated with thunder, storm, lightening etc.
The first symbol though is undoubtedly of Norse origin though there may be other cultures where it exists and represents peace too.

wardenferry419:
One interpretation is Minoan, a society that predates Greek that worshiped a Great Goddess.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page