An eerie parallel to Inrau's death scene--Chapter 14 in The Judging Eye, Cil-Aujus
Remarkable elements in Inrau's death scene: an inchoroi, the gnosis, Onkhis, the copper tree. All of these things come up in Cil-Aujust too.
- the chapter starts with stuff about Cu'jara Cinmoi--the copper tree
- Sil/inchoroi also included in the depictions of yore--inchoroi
- chapter reveals history of the war between nonmen and inchoroi in general
- odd gnosis things happening: it was weird that a clergy member would suddenly use the gnosis (if he had used it before, then he would be stained and very exposed to the College of Luthymae; if he had not used it before, how in the world could he suddenly be so badass?; if he had not used it before, why do mar your own soul right before your likely death? even if he escapes, he's tainted) AND there's weird stuff with the gnosis -- Achamian hands the light to Mimara
- Onkhis is there too? The Dancer in the Dark? Oh yeah, the quote from Cleric:
"We Nonmen...we think the dark holy...The dark is oblivion made manifest. And oblivion encircles us always. It is the ocean, and we are naught but silvery bubbles. It leans all about us. You see it every time you glimpse the horizon--though you know it not. In the light, our eyes are what blinds us. But in the dark--in the dark!--the line of the horizon...opens like a mouth...and oblivion gapes...For my kind, holiness begins when comprehension ends. Ignorance stakes us out marks our limits, draws the line between us and what transcends. For us, the true God is the unknown God, the God that outruns our febrile words, our flattering thoughts..." US paperback 323-324
what what, help me out!
p.s. some odd parallels between Cu'jara and Kellhus too. Cleric refers to Cu'jara as "Our Tyrant-Saviour" which would be the combo of what the Yatwerians and the Zaudunyani call Kellhus (299). Later, Cleric speaks to a statue of Cu'jara. From Akka's POV, it is described as "a magesterial Nonman hewn from the walls, at once hanging with arms and legs outstretched--a pose curiously reminiscent of the Circumfix" (306-7). Later, when Cleric is preaching the above, Akka thinks that it sounds like Kellhus-talk -- not a connection to Cu'jara directly, but perhaps still significant.
So is the big big reveal, the darkness that comes before all going to be a secret about Cu'jara Cinmoi? Revealed in the Ishterebinth parts that so moved our sanctified Admin???