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Wormwood
123Chikadee:
Oh this is cool, I only knew about the Revelation stuff. I heard it was theorized that that scene was foreshadowing for the BAT. Though with this information, wormwood could be a red herring for something worse, and wormwood was actually good all along. Maybe someone has to convince Mother Summer to help humanity and not let nature take its course.
morriswalters:
--- Quote ---Wormwood is only mentioned once in the Book of Revelation: Revelation 8 verse 10. "The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water— the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter." (Rev 8:10–11)
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Mira:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on January 07, 2019, 01:05:45 PM ---Wormwood is only mentioned once in the Book of Revelation: Revelation 8 verse 10. "The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water— the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter." (Rev 8:10–11)
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Which fits with the second definition for wormwood that I sighted,
--- Quote --- a state or source of bitterness or grief.
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However in reality it is also a powerful medicine that can cure people from a very nasty disease.. It appears to have two sides, hence the reverence that Mother Summer seemed to have for the little pot as she put it back on the shelf... Actually also not uncommon for lots of drugs, they can both cure and kill depending on how they are used. Also point out that the names on the little pots are all actual diseases, where as wormwood, with its many negative connotations is a cure for many, and not a disease.
Bad Alias:
As it is capitalized and with diseases, I believe it is a reference to Revelations. The word for the wormwood plant has been used throughout history to mean bitter, both literally and more figuratively. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormwood_(Bible)
--- Quote from: peregrine on January 07, 2019, 04:46:38 AM ---And on the Revelations note, the original Greek word for Revelation, is Apocalypse. As in, Big Trilogy.
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Just to clarify, apocalypse originally meant revelation, as in revealed truth. Because of the contents of the book, it has come to mean the end of the world. Funnily enough, the Book of Revelations is also where we get the word armageddon as meaning the end of the world.
Mira:
Here is something a little more interesting further down in that article, bolding mine
--- Quote ---Certain commentators have held that this "great star" represents one of several important figures in political or ecclesiastical history,[4] while other Bible dictionaries and commentaries view the term as a reference to a celestial being. A Dictionary of The Holy Bible states, "the star called Wormwood seems to denote a mighty prince, or power of the air, the instrument, in its fall."[5]
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Mighty prince? Could that mean Starborn as in Harry?
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