Sep-07-2010, 03:11 AM (UTC)
Nah, I just meant that I've always thought that Fitz meant the "the Witness Stones" when he said "Pillars" and I had just figured this meant black, smooth surfaces as masks. Now that I've stopped to actually think about this (and thank you for that! 
) I realize it could mean a LOT of different things - the Pillars could be something else entirely, and the "mask of the Pillars" could indeed be something more interesting than just black fabric. 
I need to check what the books actually say about the glyphs, but didn't each mark refer to a certain place? Were they the same glyphs that were used in the Stone Game, or just similar?
We might also consider the possibility that this early in the series, Robin hadn't yet formed the principles of this cosmos completely and just wrote the Man Ceremony so that it sounded mysterious - and didn't necessarily even attempt to connect it to anything else.
) I realize it could mean a LOT of different things - the Pillars could be something else entirely, and the "mask of the Pillars" could indeed be something more interesting than just black fabric. I need to check what the books actually say about the glyphs, but didn't each mark refer to a certain place? Were they the same glyphs that were used in the Stone Game, or just similar?We might also consider the possibility that this early in the series, Robin hadn't yet formed the principles of this cosmos completely and just wrote the Man Ceremony so that it sounded mysterious - and didn't necessarily even attempt to connect it to anything else.
"Green nubs on the dry sticks of the clematis promised that the appearance of death was not death itself." - Ship of Destiny
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