Well, does this seem like viramsata? In a way, yes, it is possible is we discount the time paradox. The prophecy is one of the main reasons why Kellhus is able to gain such power. In fact, it is the reason he isn't ended by Akka straight away. It's also the reason he gains the Gnosis, without that he would never have been able to best any sorcerers, let alone dominate them.
So, is the prophecy a lie? Well, no, but it is a self-fulfilling truth. It is the reason itself is true. Therefor at some point, it was false, and yet, it never was. In other words, it made itself true. It is actually the greatest piece of viramsata ever, a lie made literally true.
I'm not sure I'm buying this as "self-fulfilling prophesy" (unless Kellhus is, in fact, somehow the source) and I'll tell you why:
First, I feel like it's too specific, calling for an Anasurimbor to return at the end. The Anasurimbor line could have died out (in fact, it almost did in the prologue to TDTCB). The could have never emerged from Ishual (as far as we know, Moe wasn't influenced by the prophesy to come out and Kell didn't know about it). But to fulfill the prophesy, it had to be an Anasurimbor, not just, I don't, an ancient king of the north or something even more vague.
Second, it's the
vision that we get--it's not just words, proclaiming that an Anasurimbor will return... it's the fact that, thousands of years before Kellhus is born, Celmomas
sees him. Well, okay, that's an assumption, based on the decapitants in the vision. But it's pretty distinctive, and I suspect that's why Akka wakes screaming from the dream. Granted, he neither explicitly confirms or denies that he has seen, through Celmomas' eyes, Kellhus. But that seems to be what's happening.
Additionally, there's the fact of the Consult becoming/being very active in the Three Seas at the time of the First Holy War. They were bringing about the end of the world whether Akka or Kelhus did anything about it.
Even leaving that aside, with the White Luck and Yatwer, we've seen intimations that the gods are capable of seeing future events... even if it's at least somehow possible for Kelmomas to (accidentally) subvert the future that they've already seen.
Maybe we're talking past each other rather than really arguing, but this seems like some real prophesy going on. I'm not seeing it as a lie that made itself true--just because knowing the prophesy may have influenced the actions of some people involved in fulfilling the prophesy, I don't see that as the same thing as "self-fulfilling," unless every prophesy is, by definition, self-fulfilling unless no one involved in its fulfillment is privy to the prophesy, and that seems like too high of a bar to be reasonable.
On the "sweet things" well, he is telling him that his line doesn't end. "One of of my seed" harkens right to his "seeds" comment about Ishual. In other words, Cel was very concerned about the line living on. Here is "Gilgaol" to say that the seeds indeed succeeded, that the line does live on.
Good point. I guess it's all in your perspective, eh?
I don't know if Gilgaol is really the source, or not. Maybe it is Seswatha. Maybe it is actually Kellhus. In any case though, Kellhus is the end of the world (as it was). If Kellhus succeeds or if the Consult succeeds, Earwa isn't ever going to be the same. This is the End, one way or another.
Fair enough. I think my money's on Gilgaol actually sending the vision, but even if that's the case, I don't know what to make of it.