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Godwyn's backstory is even more tragic thank you think.
Calling Godwyn a “scion of the golden bough” is a clear allusion to the book, “The Golden Bough,” one of the foundational texts for religious studies. First published by the Scottish armchair anthropologist Sir James Frazer in 1890, “The Golden Bough” focused on the concepts of the dying godking and ritualistic regicide. The book has been immensely influential and inspired a wide variety of artists and thinkers, including HP Lovecraft, TS Eliot, Sigmund Freud, and Joseph Campbell. In fact, "The Golden Bough" was even cited by name in "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Waste Land," "Totem and Taboo," and "A Hero with a Thousand Faces." (Now that's range!)
Based on insights gleaned from “The Golden Bough,” I make the case that Godwyn the Golden had Deathblight before the Night of the Black Knives and that Miquella was working against yet another outer god to save his brother.
Edited with Gling AI: bit.ly/46bGeYv
Works Referenced:
1922 abridged version of the The Golden Bough:
sacred-texts.com/pag/frazer/index.htm
gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3623/pg3623-images.html
John B. Vickery, “The Literary Impact of The Golden Bough”
Jonathan Z. Smith, “When the Bough Breaks,” jstor.org/stable/1062126
Ludwig Wittgenstein, “Remarks on Frazer’s Golden Bough”
haubooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Ludwig-Wittgenstein-The-Mythology-in-Our-Language-Remarks-on-Frazers-Golden-Bough-Translated-by-Stephan-Palmie-edited-by-Giovanni-da-Col-and-Stephan-Palmie.pdf
David Graeber’s “Remarks on Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Frazer” davidgraeber.org/papers/remarks-on-wittgensteins-remarks-on-frazer
(Yo dawg, I heard you like remarking on Frazer...)
#eldenring #eldenringlore #godwyn #miquella #eldenringdlc
Godwyn's backstory is even more tragic thank you think.
Calling Godwyn a “scion of the golden bough” is a clear allusion to the book, “The Golden Bough,” one of the foundational texts for religious studies. First published by the Scottish armchair anthropologist Sir James Frazer in 1890, “The Golden Bough” focused on the concepts of the dying godking and ritualistic regicide. The book has been immensely influential and inspired a wide variety of artists and thinkers, including HP Lovecraft, TS Eliot, Sigmund Freud, and Joseph Campbell. In fact, "The Golden Bough" was even cited by name in "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Waste Land," "Totem and Taboo," and "A Hero with a Thousand Faces." (Now that's range!)
Based on insights gleaned from “The Golden Bough,” I make the case that Godwyn the Golden had Deathblight before the Night of the Black Knives and that Miquella was working against yet another outer god to save his brother.
Edited with Gling AI: bit.ly/46bGeYv
Works Referenced:
1922 abridged version of the The Golden Bough:
sacred-texts.com/pag/frazer/index.htm
gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3623/pg3623-images.html
John B. Vickery, “The Literary Impact of The Golden Bough”
Jonathan Z. Smith, “When the Bough Breaks,” jstor.org/stable/1062126
Ludwig Wittgenstein, “Remarks on Frazer’s Golden Bough”
haubooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Ludwig-Wittgenstein-The-Mythology-in-Our-Language-Remarks-on-Frazers-Golden-Bough-Translated-by-Stephan-Palmie-edited-by-Giovanni-da-Col-and-Stephan-Palmie.pdf
David Graeber’s “Remarks on Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Frazer” davidgraeber.org/papers/remarks-on-wittgensteins-remarks-on-frazer
(Yo dawg, I heard you like remarking on Frazer...)
#eldenring #eldenringlore #godwyn #miquella #eldenringdlc
