[[dramatic irony intensifies]]
Quick, linguistics-fan readers: look up the Hebrew for “Unshaped Being.” (Bonus level: figure out why this Being is called “Saxon”.)
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María: Of course! He’s an Unshaped Being. Does that mean he could take on any form you told him to . . . ?
Josh: Not quite. I don’t understand how a living body works well enough to design one from scratch. All the Beings as complex as Saxon are based on existing creatures. I was going to make a Dove, like I used to as a kid . . . but it turns out that was taken.
Not a problem, though! I like Donkeys just as much.
Saxon: And I’m just happy as long as he likes me.
Josh: Hey, ah — don’t go telling people about this, though, okay?
María: Wouldn’t dream of it. Do your new friends know?
Josh: The guys? Not yet. There are a few I plan to tell at some point. I’m just afraid if it gets out more widely, someone will accuse me of playing God. And I can’t see that ending well.
Don’t know Hebrew, so I’ll have to wait and see if someone else figures it out.
Apocrapha text: “Yeshua” created birds out of clay and brought them to life….the particular story didn’t end well.
I’m asking this here because this is the place I found out about it from; What is going on with Puella Magica Madoka? Is it just a slow start until we get to the action?
A slow start, heh, that’s one way of putting it. They literally use different ending credits for the first two episodes than most of the rest, because the main ED is so dark and dramatic and they want to be coy about the direction it’s going.
Get through the fight scene in episode 3, then reconsider how much action you’re expecting!
Google Translate gave me a string of Hebrew letters that I roughly transliterated to “hrvts-rskh tvyhl”, but I think the one we’re looking for is “golem”?
Bingo.
(Not so close with Saxon’s name, but keep at it!)
This, then, for Saxon? http://www.amazon.com/Carrot-Donkey-Saxon-Mystery/dp/0312025548
Or has it anything to do with how Anglo-Saxon descendants would go on to be closely identified with Christianity?
Also, bit of a stretch, but I’m guessing he’s called Saxon after the line of rabbi of the Chabad-Lubavitch community, who believed in the historicity of the golem, and whose names were variations of “Schneersohn”. Playing with Google Translate gradually brings one to “סארסון” (via suggestions), which “translates” (or transliterates, dunno what GT is doing here since I never studied linguistics and don’t know Hebrew) to “Sarson” in English, which sounds very similar to the German and Saxon pronunciations of “saxon”.
And ok I just noticed the tags, so–he’s really based off Jesus, ain’t he? ^^;;
“All the Beings as complex as Saxon”?
does that imply that there are some that are less complex?
It most certainly does =)
Hang on. *Roots around through WoD* Ah, here we are, “Promethean the Created”.
He used to make doves… like Jesus did? I think I’m beginning to see a theme here…