"Odin foresaw a new war among the gods that would bring doom on them all. Calling upon his utmost powers, he reached forward in time - which is not the same for gods as it is for men - and brought that to pass which had never happened before and never would again." (p. 15)
How does Odin foresee?
How does he reach forward in time?
How is time different for gods and men?
How does the Time Patrol timeline become unstable?
Could a quantum fluctuation transform that timeline into the Nine Worlds in the Tree?
Might the Ragnarok reverse such a transformation?
Carl Farness manifests Woden in the Time Patrol timeline. We might think of other identifications. The Aesir protect Midgard from elemental forces personified as giants. The Time Patrol protects history from temporal chaos that can be manifested through a personal causal nexus. Order and Chaos wage war in two universes in Three Hearts And Three Lions.
Can gods and Danellians meet?
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I can imagine it being possible that some alternate worlds might have a real Odin who was a "god." I think A MIDSUMMER TEMPEST gives us a hint of that in the first Old Phoenix interlude, in Chapter XII, when Holger Danske, speaking to Prince Rupert, says: "After a lot of mishaps--the last was with a clutch of Aztec gods, and I barely escaped in one piece--"
And we know what the demon gods of the Aztecs were like, so it's no surprise that was a dangerous timeline!
Ad astra! Sean
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