Has anyone poured in a ton of thought to the ongoing reverse Cain prophecy dealio? It’s still working backwards in chronological order for Dean’s life vs his except I think we’ve kind of run out of backwards prophecy happening with the opposite effect at this point? (it was firmly established that Cain was Half Right about it all as in the order existed but the end result of the action was “reverse” to what he did as well – since Cain killed Abel to save him from Lucifer, Dean spared Sam and he… did the thing)
Or is there a speculation for how this would work carrying on in reverse effect from the point of subversion that just happened?? Like, following on backwards from Cain’s story??? I’m just wondering if anyone’s put any energy into exploring this since I haven’t even tried thinking it through yet and that’s a lot of threads to gather together and I can hold maybe 2 potato in my thoughts right now…
I was just kind of thinking about that, because now we’ve zipped on past “I killed my brother” to “My brother was talking to Lucifer, not God” and does this end with the gates of Eden being opened back up, and if you take it back far enough the undoing of Creation? that’s a little trippy.
Ah! Yes! Because I’ve been wondering about Amara vs Creation. She seemed kind of… content with the actual making of the world and it was just the metaphysics of souls and Heaven and God’s interaction with it that she’s currently got umbrage with. But she also seems to be veering dangerously close to someone who could and would unravel the whole thing out of spite to God? Like, I am concerned she’d want to unravel it and she definitely has the means to.
If we’re working backwards though from Cain and Abel that does mean we’re working backwards through the book of Genesis right? It’s all in that one book? (look who never had to study the Bible for anything ever and knows it mostly by hearsay :P)
@larinah I (assume) was talking about how the darkness and light were at the start of the Bible? I can’t remember or figure out how to find those posts on my blog right now. 😛 But I am pretty sure there was something about the light being split from the darkness and if the speculation that Amara and God need to smush back together into one cosmic entity to settle this dispute is worth anything, that will literally be running through to the start??
I don’t know why you would assume it was me talking about the bible. I hardly ever talk about the bible. (*Pretends that she didn’t used to teach Sunday School and lead a Bible Study group for years before becoming an atheist*)
But, yeah, I was. 😛
I was also a couple of years ago talking about Metatron pushing a big ‘restart’ button up there along with all his cosmic levers, because I’d bet money that was his original storyline before everything got accordioned out. And then I was thinking that that was the story that perhaps got moved over to THE DARKNESS as the show keeps getting renewed. I was thinking of it as Metatron making the big wheel in the sky spin around again for a do-over with him as the creator, but it’s interesting to think of it as THE DARKNESS spinning the wheel around in reverse for an undo instead.
She did say something about God thinking he could create better than she could, so she must have had some designs way back in the beginning herself.
Hmmm, so then does that mean that Mary and John are going to have to undress as Mary spits out an apple. Mary is reduced to a rib, which leaps into John’s chest. He unnames all the animals and when done, lays down to dissolve into the mud?
I don’t know, but that last bit there is a pretty Bokononist thing to say!!
(Which would be surprisingly fitting for all of this!)
And God said, “Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can
see what We have done.” And God created every living creature that now
moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close
as mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke. Man blinked. “What is
the purpose of all this?” he asked politely.
“Everything must have a purpose?” asked God.
“Certainly,” said man.
“Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this,” said God.
And He went away.——
God made mud.
God got lonesome.
So God said to some of the mud, “Sit up!”
“See all I’ve made,” said God, “the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars.”
And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around.
Lucky me, lucky mud.
I, mud, sat up and saw what a nice job God had done.
Nice going, God.
Nobody but you could have done it, God! I certainly couldn’t have.
I feel very unimportant compared to You.
The only way I can feel the least bit important is to think of all the mud that didn’t even get to sit up and look around.
I got so much, and most mud got so little.
Thank you for the honor!
Now mud lies down again and goes to sleep.
What memories for mud to have!
What interesting other kinds of sitting-up mud I met!
I loved everything I saw!
Good night.
I will go to heaven now.
I can hardly wait…
To find out for certain what my wampeter was…
And who was in my karass…
And all the good things our karass did for you.
Amen.
“Everything must have a purpose?” asked God.
“Certainly,” said man.
“Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this,” said God.
And He went away.
Excellent! I love it. I need to read more Vonnegut. I’m ashamed I haven’t so far in my life.
Hmmm. Making me think, here. Amara’s certainly all about the bliss of submission and abnegation of the self. I wonder if the fact that humans giving the world meaning and free will only being possible if God goes away is the lesson that she needs to learn. Not a new lesson in SPN.
Hearseeno 