33 1/3

33 1/3

The Singers

Since everything is getting knotted nicely together now I might as well correlate the name of the third mysterious chandrian danger ‘the singers‘ to this Aleph meeting just to really stir matters up further. The singers are neither the Amyr nor the Sithe but must have been present here too by default to be recognised as a third important threat by the Chandrian since this is where all the new god given powers were being allocated once and for all. I will suggest that we have already met the final members of group3 when I point out that Tehlu’s army of angels were also given their wings at this very same meeting for a specific task which was considered less extreme than that of the Amyr and Sithe when they were touched by Aleph and had their long names changed by him.

‘They came to Aleph, and he touched them. The touched their hands and eyes and hearts. The last time he touched them there was pain, and wings tore from their backs that they might go where they wished… Then Aleph spoke their long names and they were wreathed in a white fire. The fire danced along their wings and they became swift. The fire flickered in their eyes and they saw into the deepest hearts of men. The fire filled their mouths and they spoke songs of power.

This is very reminiscent to when Kvothe learned his own true name from the Adem Magwyn, the salient points being the hands and eyes and hearts which she inspected most carefully three times. Menda also struck everyone three times with iron when he was giving them all a new name and I bet you a Jot it was hands, eyes and hearts once more. This is how the naming of all men is held together, through these three parts that form their three part names. Hands,eyes and hearts.

Amyr hands. Angels hearts. Sithe eyes

However, The part we require to solve our latest triangle is the final line ‘The fire filled their mouths and they sang songs of power.’ which would make them powerful singers (no capital required). The singers are just a descriptive name for the Angels, they sing songs of power, and either name fits perfectly as being the third threat to future chandrian wellbeing along with the Amyr and the Sithe, One group to guard against them, one group to confound them and one group to punish them. Its as easy as 1,2,3 really.

This would also mean that it can only have been these powerful singing Angels which interrupted the chandrian when we see them last, since they are the only ones of the triad which have the necessary job descriptions and holy remit to do so, tidying up after the event. They have wings and powers so that they might go where they wished invisible in their righteousness, which would be rather necessary if your threat is described as an invisible presence coming late to the scene from a certain corner of the sky ! even young Kvothe can sense a watching feeling, a tenseness, a subtle change in the texture of the air. Cinder also uses the word watcher when he compares Haliax to being ‘as good as a watcher’ just before he receives Lord Haliax’ own brand of punishment.

We get a few hints on how to summon an angel from Trapis, he quotes the Lead angel saying

‘If I am needed and called in the proper ways then I will come again to judge and punish.

The correct way to summon Lord Tehlu during the classic recreations of high mourning is to say Tehlu’s name in it’s classical Temic form ‘ Tehus! Tehus! Tehus antausa eha’ which according Kote is how you traditionally banish demons. And as Trapis adds…

And that is how we know Tehlu cares for us, and watches us, and keeps us safe from—‘

‘—the chandrian’ is what really fits best here to finish the line , although it has probably been sanitised into harm or some other soft nondescript wording by the Tehlin church, it matters not. Perhaps using true names is how Tehlu is called in the proper way? Marten is praying to Tehlu like crazy when Kvothe is battling Cinder in the Eld.

‘Tehlu whose eyes are true, Watch over me. Tehlu son of yourself, watch over me. Tehlu who was Menda who you were, watch over me. In Menda’s name, In Perial’s name, In Ordal’s name, In Andan’s name. Watch over me.’

This is probably the church version of praying from the Book of the Path and therefore unreliable for accurate references to the real shape of things, but they do have the names correct, Andan and Ordal are still written on the page of the holy book Nina used for her picture and appear to be watching over her when she had repetative dreams. They came to her in the aftermath of the latest chandrian attack of their own volition,almost as if they were watching over her. this is their task, they watch, they punish or they reward and they don’t always need summoning to do it. the Amyr and the Sithe may have their own special powers but are both depicted as horse riders, not winged beings and these groups have a more preventative bent to their modus operandi. And so it is therefore left to the watching Angels whose task it is to watch and to mete out justice to the world on behalf of Aleph in response to any chandrian related actions and ‘to punish or reward only what you yourselves witness from this day forth.’ Sod everyone else, the singers only act in the aftermath of a chandrian attack, these are the only crimes deemed important to them like the Amyr only known task is to deal with confounding the chandrian menace too. The singers are up there… somewhere, everywhere, newarre, whatever… watching for the chandrian next attack, and whilst they cannot interfere by Aleph’s decree, they are now allowed to act and are swiftly on their winged way to punish or reward and to sing their songs of power, possibly a similar sort of song to the one that Kvothe saw and sung and thus tamed the mighty Felurian… The chandrain choose to flee any such punishment leaving Kvothe alone in the ashes of his despair to receive these singers full attention.

If any of this is making any sense at all then come please see me after class and explain it back to me…slowly. I sm deliberately leaving some things alone for now so as to not clog things up too soon, this is an extrapolation in three parts at the moment and looks less like a story knot and more like like a hairy ball of string or the Chancellors sock drawer to the untrained eye. But as sceptical as you should be you should hopefully agree that this theory does quite nicely put all three of the groups that Haliax protects his chandrian from all together into one convenient location at the same time…. and the same place. The place in question is where Aleph held court to the Ruach in our trusted account from Skarpi#2. And it becomes quite apparent that entire point of this meeting was to shape the world anew ‘from this day forth’ as Aleph said. Everything was decided here and the location of the meeting was at Perial’s house.

Zoom meeting 

All of this makes it pretty clear now to me that this meeting was the most important meeting ever to take place in the history of Temerant. Ergen is no more, Tinuë is entering the history books and great changes were made to the world on this day without a date. VD day, the day the threat of the Demons was ended. Three factions of the Ruach were charged with different tasks on the same day to uphold Aleph’s edict. And all three tasks are designed to answer the unsnswerable question ‘How do we deal with Lanre? the eternal man who cannot die?’

One thought on “33 1/3”

    matty tangle says: 

    May 4, 2019 at 9:55 pm 

    Oookay, story time. The night I published that… My car got vandalised. Small stuff, flat tyre, wiper blade, mirror glass!! But we were meant to be moving on that day and it got put back. Did the repairs today at lunch and she’s fit for an evening move… But we didn’t make it that far, vandalised again that afternoon this time they put a brick through the window. Cunts.

    This is clearly a targeted attack, it was a gang of four kids and I was on their turf. Since I wasn’t going to catch them I got this point and moved elsewhere. We were moored by Seven crossings bridge…

    When I got home I picked up the machine and the books and started tinkering around with all different sorts of gram to protect me against evil spirits…

    And something new fell out of my research which I rather like…

Tehlu cannot himself be one of the Sithe because he has no adverse reaction to iron, unlike all of the other faen folk, neither is he seen wearing a holly crown or riding a horse, he was actually called the walking god and he walked the land ‘destroying’ these demons when he caught them.

Tehlu was a tool of Aleph’s justice and there are even hints that this is actually his own true long name means, like Selitos was bound by the true name of Selitos in Skarpi#1. Tehlu being the long name written in his own heart may well translate into justice in the language of such things but such translation is a chapter in itself (Teh means lock in our sygaldry alphabet and lu is one part of the moon’s true name…) Tehlu also announced before his master Aleph ‘I hold justice foremost in my heart’ and that could be read to indicate that justice is exactly what his name actually means. But he has another name too, his calling name was Menda, and Menda is a different story all together since he was born under very special circumstances. He was rushed into being born in one third of the usual time and in mortal form, in mortal lands, as the result of a holy union between God and Mortal, a union which is correctly called a Titan in the ancient greek myths of our world, a sort of demi-god. Aleph created the world but desired a more earthly form to be his instrument of justice, and Menda was the result of the union between an omnipotent Aleph who came to the important Lady that was called Perial in a dream and left her imaculately pregnant, exactly like so many greek myths have Zeus doing. (Perial’s story is equally baffling and should be coming along in due course, very soon now I think…)