The Celmomian Prophecy (Hmmm what a strange coincidence that it involves Kelmomas' name sake, remember the different spelling is just due to transliteration) says that "An Anasurimbor will return at the End of the World". However, as is pointed out by Esmenet in the Warrior Prophet when Achamian first tells her of Kellhus...if Kellhus truly is an Anasurimbor, then there has always been an Anasurimbor in the world. That's not a return of any kind.
And maybe the Dunyain are merely the keepers of that prophecy, a group which conditioned itself specifically to produce Kellhus Anasûrimbor and the circumstances of his Ordeal.The Dunyain, who, at the very core of their teachings, reject the possibility of prophecy? That which comes after cannot determine what comes before. The Dunyain who purposefully forgot everything of history and sorcery from the beginning? The Dunyain that were astonished to find the unnamed Anasurimbor and Ishual?
That's fine. I see no reason to believe any of those things though, and there are simpler explanations requiring less faith.
It strikes me as entirely unlikely that the prophecies would have accidentally lined up with Kellhus' arrival.It didn't, so I'd agree
Leaving Moenghus' expulsion or flight unexplained is also absurd - they are Dunyain, everything is deliberate.I don't think its likely the Dunyain even knew of the Celmomian prophecy. After all, every dunyain (non-super-human at this point btw) was wandering around the wasted north trying to find some haven against the Apocalypse. The news of said prophecy would have had enormous difficulty reaching them.
More likely the prophecies either were uttered as part of the necessary conditions of creating a being like Kellhus or genuine prophecy.Kellhus was created by the Dunyain, and I would give them full credit for the Kellhus that existed before he left Ishual.
Either way the prophecy prepared the way for the Great Ordeal.This. Part of the prophesy has already been fulfilled, specifically, the part about an Anasurimbor. We know this part is true, and like I've said before, its largely irrelevant which specific Anasurimbor it was supposed to be pointing to.... Unless its specifically for an Anasurimbor that has yet to be introduced into the story, which I find extremely unlikely. The series is called The Second Apocalypse for a reason.
You can't have the end of the world twice :P....In fact, you can! I have a lil theory about gods' blindness to all things consulty & inchoroiy.
Meta-apocalypse.Very nice. I approve :P
One thing that remains, what of Ajokli?Sleepy me, so time to be as brief and mysterious as pobbisle. 8)
I guess if there is some "real" Anasurimbor that we are waiting for, and its neither Moenghus or Kellhus because they are not, by some miracle, related to Celmomas, than its possible that the prophesy has not been fulfilled, that there is not yet a Harbinger... Still seems extremely convoluted and unlikely.Actually, I would like to have another Tolkien moment here, but in Bakker-esque cruel way: