Tag: Kingkiller
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Tehlu’s Wheel
I want to take a moment in the midst of this reread to point out that Tehlu’s wheel is an ancient symbol found on Mohenjo-Daro seals around 3000 B.C.E. It’s a sun symbol — a sun wheel to be precise. The Gauls used the sun wheel as a sort of good amulet. As a Celtic tribe,…
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Doors of Stone release prep : Kingkiller Reread Intro
Ten years ago, I read Name of the Wind and felt captured by a kindred spirit who cared deeply about the state of the world, the fantasy canon, and the capacity of prose to be poetry and myth. Five years later, I read Wise Man’s Fear and the feeling compounded as I started noticing layers:…