Worlds Within Worlds and Yarn Winding Yarn

[Ionbound]

So...I just noticed something in strip #999. (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0999.html) Odin votes no (via Proxy) because 'I see worlds within worlds, and yarn winding yarn.' What do people think this mean, other than the obvious of Odin knowing more about the Snarl and the Inner World than he lets on.

[Mandor]

So...I just noticed something in strip #999. (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0999.html) Odin votes no (via Proxy) because 'I see worlds within worlds, and yarn winding yarn.' What do people think this mean, other than the obvious of Odin knowing more about the Snarl and the Inner World than he lets on.

Well the Snarl is formed from a tangle of the threads of reality... yarn, if you will... of the gods first attempt to each create the original world as they wanted it to be. "Yarn winding yarn" ... I suppose that could mean that Snarl has learned to alter itself and become more aware of itself than the apparent original mindless creature of chaotic malice it seemed to be in the tale told by Lord Shojo. Or, perhaps, that Snarl has learned to create children of a sort? By deliberately making MORE tangles in the threads of it's current prison? Maybe not.

You could also speculate that the whole "inner world" is the Snarl attempting to mimic it's current prison... so that if it could assume the exact shape of that prison, it might seek out weak spots... or perhaps create more weak spots... more rifts through which it might escape, in addition to the ones locked down by Gates.

[martianmister]

Yarn = Things created by gods (World, Snarl, etc.), out of cosmic fibres/threads of chaotic universe.
Winding = Creating "yarn" from fibres/threads of cosmos.
Yarn (itself is) Winding Yarn = The creature of gods is itself became a god, and it's creating a "yarn" itself, namely "the world within world".

[KorvinStarmast]

Maybe he's just Odin being Odin, and obliquely referring to standard figures in Norse Mythology. (http://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/others/the-norns/)

... the Norns are three female divine beings who have more influence over the course of destiny than any other beings in the cosmos. They dwell within the Well of Urd beneath Yggdrasil, the great ash tree that stands at the center of the universe and holds the Nine Worlds in its branches and roots. They shape destiny by carving runes into the trunk of the tree, or, in some sagas and poems, by weaving destiny like a web or tapestry.This is similar to the Fates in Greek Mythology in theme.

Rich then weaves that in with the Snarl and its world being within the OoTS world ... the whole message coming across as a variation on Walter Scott's
Oh, what a tangled web we weave"
from the Marmion.

[archon_huskie]

Are you sure he said winding and not winding?

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0837.html

[LordRahl6]

Could be a Double Entendre that means both how the story plots are woven together, and some of the issues regarding what is happening within the rifts and what the OotSers saw.:smallwink:

[PallentisLunam]

Are you sure he said winding and not winding?

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0837.html

Nah, doesn't work. Winding isn't a word.

[Bulldog Psion]

Well, we know that there are worlds within worlds, so Odin's reference seems to be talking about that.

As for yarn winding yarn, it sounds like the Snarl has become self-aware enough to start changing itself, becoming more orderly -- though it still looked just as alien, terrible, and dangerous when it burst out in the desert there.

[blunk]

Are you sure he said winding and not winding?

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0837.htmlOdin saw a yarnhound, made out of yarn.

[Windscion]

Could be a Double Entendre that means both how the story plots are woven together, and some of the issues regarding what is happening within the rifts and what the OotSers saw.:smallwink:

Agree. I saw yarn winding yarn as an echo of plots within plots, circles within circles.

You know, for a glorified laundry monster, the snarl is pretty mysterious. But then, its the gods' laundry monster.

[DemonRoach]

I'd say Odin doesn't know squat more than anyone else, but does know how to imply that he does.

[KorvinStarmast]

I'd say Odin doesn't know squat more than anyone else, but does know how to imply that he does. He was at top of his class at Asgard Business School ... go figure. :smallbiggrin:

[Jasdoif]

He was at top of his class at Asgard Business School ... go figure. :smallbiggrin:It had more to do with Odin's highchair than his grades, I thought....