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Re: Watcher (and no, this has nothin 2 do w/ the a
Posted By: kalamadea (h002078cfad1c.ne.client2.attbi.com)
Date: 7/5/2002 at 9:23 p.m.
In Response To: Watcher (and no, this has nothin 2 do w/ the arm!) (Doom)
I know he's
: sometimes referred to as the Mad Goat of the Fens...
: So where are these fens they're talking about? And why
: did people address him as a goat? Is it at all
: possible that he IS actually a goat? Am I nuts? Oh,
: wait, I know the answer to that one... of course I am.
: About the other questions... Will you respond? Or
: won't you? And why the h*ll am I still talking?
: -Doom
Regarding the origin of the Watcher's title Mad Goat of the Fens, Silicon Dream writes:
A couple of observations on name origins: The Watcher's nickname, "The Mad Goat of the Fens," was doubtless a takeoff on the characteristic epithet of Lovecraft's Shub-Niggurath, "The Black Goat of the Woods With a Thousand Young." Shub-Niggurath is the monstrous embodiment of the fertility principle in Lovecraft's mythos, and indeed you could view the Watcher as a warped fertility god--instead of overseeing the birth of living creatures, he endows the dead with a blasphemous new unlife.
Score one more for SiliconDream!
*courtesy of Legends and Lore/Fallen Names
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