A discourse on my last entry and its comments…
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Although I would like to give most of you the benefit of the doubt concerning my entries, the fact remains that some of you may not know what in the world I am talking about in most of them.
So, as a service to all of you people I do so adore, I will explain my last entry a bit.
Motive: Well, the reason behind the last entry was retribution for PetezMaru’s forgetfulness. In his second entry containing the dancing Vi, he forgot to link to me, crediting me with the picture. This would normally not be so heinous, but it appears some people credited him with being the creator of the picture. Some of you may think me a small, petty man (you’d be right); still, I have principles to uphold.
Summary: In the last entry, I played the part of an evil wizard. I said that I had created PetezMaru as my slave; that I had created his body and retrieved a cursed soul to inhabit it. I signed with an anagram of my name: Majie, which is the phoentic spelling of the word magi [sing. magus].
The word magi should be most famous for the three kings/wisemen who presented Jesus with presents at his birth. A later story called Gift of the Magi would also refer to these magi. As Wellwisher noted, the magi are also “members of the Zoroastrian priestly caste of the Medes and Persians,” of The Mummy fame. My meaning in using magi/magus was “sorcerer/magician”. Those who’ve played Chrono Trigger should have encountered the word in that form.
Titles: [not descriptions. descriptions/adjectives would be lower-cased]
Necromancer: One who practices black magic or magic on the dead or uses the dead to prophesize. Necro- is a prefix meaning death or a corpse. In this case, necro means death. Perhaps you have also heard of necrophilia, which is sexual attraction to corpses or sex with corpes. The suffix -mancer means “one who practices divination by”. So for example, if there is a fortune teller than predicts the future using water droplets, we might call them a hydro-mancer, or one who practices divination by water.
Impaler: This is a reference to an earlier entry I made about Prince William being related to Count Dracula. Dracula is also known as Vlad the Impaler for his methods of torture and punishment.
Transmogrifier: To transmogrify is to change the nature of or to transfigure. In the entry, I changed the nature of the flesh and soul to create Petezmaru.
Lover: This is really a misfit considering the theme I was trying to get across. Allow me to excuse it by saying that I mean lover as in “person who enjoys sex”. Sex, especially perverse sex is sometimes considered evil.
Omega: The last letter of the greek (i think) alphabet, this is a reference to Bruce Almighty although I am sure it has been used in various works. If Good is the beginning, Evil is the end. Take Christian belief for example. In Revelations, [if i recall correctly, feel free to correct me] the world is destroyed by Satan in the form of a Dragon.
Other: Majick/Magick is a wicca term.
Wicca is a faith based on nature [practioners are better known as witches]. Fifth circle obviously refers to The Inferno. Within the fifth circle, the wrathful and sullen are stuck in the Styx and tear and mangle each other.
The River Styx was most sacred to the gods, and was the crossroads of life and death (in greek mythos). Its ferryman was Charon.
“My twisted monster” is a reference to Frankenstein’s monster.
Comments:
This entry reminded wellwisher of Spawn, because of the whole soul in hell thing. This entry is better compared to the myth of Hercules retrieving a friend’s soul out of hell (I don’t feel like fact checking this).
I don’t really remember when necromancy was mentioned in LOTR. Unless Saruman was a necromancer?
“Archangel, Vindicator, Defender of the Light Order, Sage, Conjurer, White Knight, Celestial Being, Vanquisher, Alpha, Transformer, Emissary, Warrior, Mercenary, and all-around Goodie, Deva–Dave T.”
I was puzzled by this comment. Looking at the first four titles, it appears wellwisher is trying to parallel the closing of the entry by using a “soldier/tool/being of evil versus soldier/tool/being of good” idea. Then, he uses conjurer which has a bad connotation, similar to trickster. Vanquisher has a negative connotation, so it is also a misfit. Then he writes vanquisher, alpha, transformer, etc… and all of these do not fit with the proposed parallel scheme.
So then, I consider that he is parallelizing his comment word-by-word with mine.
Arch Mage – Archangel. These only look the same. Arch mage does not imply evil, so we cannot draw a evil v good comparison.
Necromancer – Vindicator. I don’t see any parallels, besides the -er v -or, and even that is a stretch.
Practitioner of the dark arts – defender of the light order. The parallels here are the evil v good idea and the structures. Here, light was used as an adjective of order, which i assume means that it is the Order of Brightness. Light was mostly used in opposition to dark, but in this case, dark is interchangeable with “black”. The black arts are the occult arts.
Then there are the others, which do not parallelize my entry, except for Alpha and All-around-goody.
What is most confusing about this comment is how it jumps from one parallelization theme to another.