What makes me speculated is because of the following:>His folk are known for hewers of wood and drawers of waterThis is a reference to the servitude of the Gebeonites, a tribe in Canaan, after their trick covenant with the Israelites and also seen as a reference to the curse Ham/Canaan from the Bible. Accursed and in some tradition Ham's descendants had relationships with the fallen angels.>Night of your birth. Thirty-three. TheLeonids they were called. God how thestars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in theheavens.Reference to when Satan made a third of the angels rebel as written in the book of Apocalypse 12:3-4"And there was seen another sign in heaven: and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads, and ten horns: and on his head seven diadems: And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to be delivered; that, when she should be delivered, he might devour her son.">Themother dead these fourteen years did incubate in her own bosom thecreature who would carry her off. Thefather never speaks her name, thechild does not know it. He has asister in this world that he will not see again. He watches, pale and unwashed. He canneither read nor write and in him broods already ataste for mindless violence.There are two most important things here. First that the child kills his mother in child birth. Human mothers rarely survive giving birth to a Nephilim. Second, the mindless violence brooding inside the child. This, imo, does not refer to the child's psychopathy but the condition of him being a Nephilim. Nephilim were said to be intelligent and strong but really depraved. Btw, I don't think that makes his father a fallen angel or anything. Maybe he is just another nephilim.>He stokes thescullery fire.Now, this one is going to be stretch. This is a reference to how in fairy tales (I have read in German and Russian ones), the hero or the fool of the tale is always poking the fire or sleeping on or near the stove after which his father getting fed up with the boy sends him out to seek his fortune. Now that does not say the kid is a Nephilim, but that does say something magical is about him.
>>24884961Can we ban religious schizos please?Or at least contain them in >>>/rel/?
>>24884961When you really start reading between the lines, basically every book is about the Nephilim or the fall of man or Satans rebellion against God. Every single one.
You're latching onto the parallels Corncob is making with Paradise Lost and extrapolating from every biblical allusion to make it work. “A third of the stars fell from heaven" is from Revelations, referenced also in Paradise Lost.The constellation the Kid is born under is Ursa Major, tying into the dead dancing bear at the end of the book. The falling stars (dying constellation, dying bear) implies the Kid was doomed from the start. Nothing bout nephilim.
