Geo got me thinking about more parallels between TSA yet to be published and Revelations here:
http://www.second-apocalypse.com/index.php?topic=813.msg22789#msg22789Some thoughts:
Revelation 1
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+1&version=NIV- Jesus is "the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth." Kellhus preaches about witnessing, could be 'born of the dead' in some sense, as in traveling to the Outside and returning. Obv ruler of rulers.
- Jesus proclaims "“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”" So here we get something like a self-moving soul.
- Jesus is described as "The hair on his head was white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire. 15 His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters. 16 In his right hand he held seven stars, and coming out of his mouth was a sharp, double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance." Fits nicely with Bakker's depictions of sorcery
- Jesus claims "I hold the keys of death and Hades." Yup, he's got the meta-gnosis-daimos.
- When the writer, John, sees Jesus "When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead." Reminds me of Kellhus telling Akka (the writer) that Akka will kneel.
Revelation 2
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=NIV- Jesus portends to one church that "You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols. 21 I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling. 22 So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways. 23 I will strike her children dead." Makes me think of Esmi and kids.
Revelation 4
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%204&version=NIV- The elders and serafim make me think of nonmen and synthese
Revelation 5
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%205&version=NIV- Scroll that must be opened --> map to Ishual?
Revelation 6
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%206&version=NIV- opening the scroll brings doom specifically war, famine, and death; all current Earwan probs
Revelation 7
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%207&version=NIV- 144,000
Revelation 8
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%208&version=NIV- Big passage that smells of the Ark crashing into Earwa: "The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down on the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.
8 The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, 9 a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
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— 11 the name of the star is Wormwood.[a] A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter."
Revelation 9
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%209&version=NIV- the Abyss --> the Outside or the Void?
- maybe an Inchoroi parallel: 'locusts' appear an do some general killing and their appearance is macabre "7 The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. 8 Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. 9 They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. 10 They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months. 11 They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer)."
- mabye another Inshoroi origin --> 200,000,000 soldiers show up
- wracu like thingies "17 The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur. 18 A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths. 19 The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury."
Revelation 10
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2010&version=NIV- another scroll
- more depictions that sound like Bakker sorcery "Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven. He was robed in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun, and his legs were like fiery pillars. 2 He was holding a little scroll, which lay open in his hand. He planted his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land, 3 and he gave a loud shout like the roar of a lion."
- the scroll is given to the writer to eat; it tastes like honey but grows sour in John's stomach an causes John to prophecy; this feels like what is going to happen to Akka; gets the scroll he desires, finds out something horrible, tells the world
Revelation 12
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2012&version=NIV- includes a dragon and a pregnant woman
- the pregnant woman flees into the wilderness --> Mimara?
Revelation 13
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2013&version=NIV- 1 dragon and 2 beasts
- one description of one of the beasts makes me think of Shauriatus "It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name" but it speaks blashphemy which might fit with Kellhus too.
- this bit reminded me of Kellhus "One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast. 4 People worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, “Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?"
Revelations 14
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2014&version=NIV- the 144,000 are back
- there is so much gold in Revelations, Bakker's inspiration for the Inchoroi's fav color?
Revelations 16
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2016&version=NIV- lots of wrath being poured out, Meppa's water comes to mind
- demons and a dragon
Revelations 17
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2017&version=NIV- lots of good stuff, getting tired of typing
Revelation 19
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2019&version=NIV- Kellhus kicking ass? "11 I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. 12 His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. 13 He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. 14 The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. 15 Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.”[a] He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. 16 On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written:
king of kings and lord of lords.
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God, 18 so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and the mighty, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, great and small.”
19 Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to wage war against the rider on the horse and his army. 20 But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs on its behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. 21 The rest were killed with the sword coming out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh."
and then there's more stuff but i have to go wash dishes
