I credit LML almost exclusively for the cleanliness of my house. Listening to his videos while I clean is pure bliss.

A conversation between you and Grrm would be legendary.

Tyrion to Jon about being a Snow: "Never forget what you are, the rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you." So Tyrion wants Jon to wear snow as armour.

"Stannis as a cosplay Azor Ahai", genius Stannis = Azor A-half

Stannis is my number 1 choice for 1000th Lord Commander of the Nightswatch. Atonement for the death of Shireen. Nothing would please me more.

My friend Brett suggested that if Jon's men put his body in the ice cell with the preserved meat - he'll get reborn again amidst salt & smoke too!

That last part with the parrot was unexpected.... A surprise to be sure but a welcome one.

Top quality asoiaf.

Jon Snow turning into the Night King though....George, please.

I feel that Blood Stone Emperor, became the first Dragon on Planetos. He probably had warging powers, he worships the blood stone and it granted him the power of warging. It could explain why he began eating Humans and his Tiger Bride was a Warging Witch that warg into Tigers. In Asian culture a Tiger is considered as powerful and dangerous as a Dragon. But like Stone the Emperor’s heart became Cold as Stone so in order to regain his Fire he began to forge for lightbringer. He call his wife and slain her which cause the moon to crack and unleash the Long Night. The emperor had a daughter whose was as cold as his heart and she went forth to create the White Shadows. In an effort to recreate the fire lost from her Father. Warging powers are the Key to recreating the Gods.

Now here's a question; are the Azor Ahai, the Prince that was promised, and last Hero, different interpretations of the same person, three different people, or are any even real? Personally I think they are they different people; Dany is Azor (she gave her living spouse to the flame and was given the worlds greatest weapons), Jon is the Prince ( descended from Rheagar, salt and bleeding star), and Bran with his companions and dog being the Last Hero.

Maybe Nissa Nissa was a “fire wight”, and that is why tempering the steel in her blood produced the flaming sword. She was resurrected by fire, and Azor Ahai didn’t want her to die again. It would explain why she bared her breast and felt the “agony and ecstasy” when the sword penetrated her heart. It is similar language to Mel’s chapters describing her meditations

Keep 'em coming! I also like how Jon representing both Azor Ahai (the bad version) and the Last Hero is a parallel for what GRRM says is the most interesting part, the "conflict of the heart". You see these two sides of his heart in conflict in his dream.

I love the mirrored symbolism here. Really epitomizes 'fire and ice'

I so appreciate that these streamlined videos / theories are the result of your years of hard work in pulling out all (and I mean all) the symbolism threads (and gods there are so many). It is watching the pyramids being built or something, brick by brick.

Watching this video makes it hurt again how much both Stannis and Jon's characters went over D&D's heads, lol. Then again, Val was one of the characters they cut out. What I still wonder is where Shireen's going to play into all this in the books. They did say her being burned was one of the 3 big moments that came from George. Book Stannis doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would just do that to this daughter for the same reason, but maybe Melisandre will get his mind warped into doing it. I can totally see it being in some form of sacrifice, regardless.

Many people consider Mel to be Stannis’s true queen as well, and she has a lottttt of parallels with Nissa Nissa.

The real question is how much coffee was consumed in the making of this video?

So, I'd long thought that the Last Hero was the first human to control the Others, and that there were several to succeed him. Recall that Maester Aemon gives the clue that "the cold preserves." My guess is that Jon is merely the next to sacrifice his mortal life to have some extended, ice-magic life and keep the Others (originally created and controlled by the Children) in the land of always winter, far from the realms of men. In that regard, the "long night" followed by a new "night's king/last hero/whatever" is a cycle that will keep repeating. I think Bran has to fit into this somehow. We know he has the power to warg humans. I bet that comes into play.

My favorite part of Sunday,

Need you in the writers room for the Jon Snow sequel… this is it

Audio copyrights: *CLAIMED* LML: Pulls out various instruments and laughs A great, well made video, as always! Thanks lml

I've always thought that Ned's mother was another cousin of the Starks. Making his grandparents both full Targaryen and full Stark and the balance of Ice and Fire.

there is another things that also comes to mind, the importance that Jon gives to not bring bastards children to the world, so what I mean is that whoever his sons will be, he will never make them bastards, he will recognize them, this is very important for him. Also Val is like a mother to "Monster" (a "cold mother" by the way she speaks of him). Monster was going to be turn into one of the Others before escaping, another foreshadowing more likely that Val is the future cold mother of the Others...

Thank you for this. In the longer podcast I have a harder time following due to memory problems. Condensing it down makes it much easier for me to stay on topic. As always love your opinions and can't wait for the next one. Stay safe

The parts where you read from the book have improved so much! Both the reading and the music and audio processing are on point! I can't help but suspect Quinn's influence is at play here.

Have you considered the Dothraki bloodriders when looking for similarities between the Others and Kingsguard? They are like the OG Kingsguard afterall :D Also, I know show != books, but in the show all the others collapsed when the NK died, and in the books it is suggested that when the Khal dies so do his bloodriders. Or they are supposed to avenge him or something.

Wonderful video! So well explained and presented. You just keep getting better and better at this work. You would be a remarkable literature professor.

The art in this video is utterly beautiful. Everyone involved deserves applause. Thank you. And thank you LmL for the amazing content.

So forgive me if I'm wrong, but the way I interpreted this video was that Stannis is almost trying to force his way into the Azor Ahai role (Positioning himself at Dragonstone, lighting the sword, producing shadow babies with Melisandre, etc) whereas Jon is naturally becoming more like Azor Ahai through his actions (unbeknown to him) and the general different characters he meets and scenarios he faces. Ghost being a shadow, Mel showing up and potentially being his queen, Jon being ressurected, etc. Really interesting video and one of the coolest takes on Azor Ahai / Night King stuff that I've seen.

Could Jon giving his seed and soul to Danny be analogous to the Nightsking/queen situation? Instead of a cold, corpse like queen, Jon would be the cold, corpse-like king (after the pink letter situation) while Danny would be like the Nightsking, dressed in black (as Targaryans and Nightswatch members did)?

Another stellar analysis, love your narration and editing, keep up the good work :)

Big fan of the theory that the sacrifice jon makes is leaving his friends and family behind to curb the others violence towards people and mediate peace. You could have it to where dany rules the seven kingdoms as fire and Jon rules the others as ice but a different sort of “ice”. If they have a child that child would be the future and the symbolic merging of the two.

As for Stannis using Mel's magic to (symbolically or literally) hypnotizing people, I think it's far more accurate to say he's one of the hypnotized. For example, it's kinda baffling how his attitude to religion changes whenever Mel isn't around. He prohibits his men from making sacrifices to R'hllor during his campaign against the Boltons, he suddenly turns (or maybe reverts?) into a cynic who almost sounds like an atheist when speaking about religion, etc.... - but as soon as he's around Mel, he turns into this religious hyper-fanatic LARPing as Azor Ahai, burning statues and even people, etc.

Next time on Mythical Astronomy, LML is joined by Stannis and Mance to talk symbolism 🔥❄

One question LmL, in Dany's POV chapters it implied that the dragon has three heads/three figuers to defeat the Others and end the Long Night, we know that Jon is one of them, but do you see Bran being the third head of the dragon given the fact that he has a lot of parallels to Dany's story, and him being a natural born ruler?

Loving the fruition of all your work in these videos mang

Incredible video as always! I was really looking forward to this one. And just wanted to say thank you for all of your videos and analyses, they really make me engage with the series in a new way. I’m seeing the astronomy everywhere!

Great video as usual. Keep it up! Also, that is some amazing artwork you've used.

i love listening to you talk. thank you so much for another fantastic video!🔥

Amazing video! Love your content!! Keep up the amazing work!

Uoure my fave ASOIAF youtuber, you couod teach a college course on this stuff, man. Keep up the great work.

Woke up to see a new video from LML :) this day got better already :)

I love that you're coming out with some shorter videos. Keep up the good work.

Azor Ahai has a lot of Luciferian parallels - but I'm stating the obvious here right? Or preaching to the converted at any rate 🤷🏻‍♀️

All the work you have done for the series is so unique and eye opening. You have reveled many secrets and an overall understanding of ASOIAF, but I think more than that, you have discovered a way (Georges way rather) that each characters arc is laid out. And now that the story makes more sense we can guess at the many paths of the future ( when expectations are subverted it will be because their are so many options). Here's to your health!

Thanks for all the spooky music that plays during your videos

Your videos are perfect to unwind and escape after a long day

Thanks Dave! Another great video, also the quavo sound bite was a great surprise

I need to go back and binge through the Great Empire of the Dawn videos! Loved the bird appearance at the end as well, he/she is absolutely gorgeous 😍 Please make cute bird conversation a regular feature 😂

Love your content. Keep it up.

Oh hurray! What a wonderful surprise!

I think he wants us to see the imagery and see just how many people can fill a prophecy but don’t because really we become a sum of our choices... it’s not just a pile of options look at the choices those options have been making... also really like not only the effort but also the tone of your presentations.

love how you have the credit for the art on the actual piece in the actual video, nice touch LML!

Great video ! Damn you are getting good at this .

Really enjoyed this one..

Excellent work LML

Excellent video all around.

Is there any chance Mellisandre ends up with Stannis sword running through her heart?

Great video. I really hope we get Winds.... everyone’s arcs are on the verge of so much awesome stuff.

Great video

I’m grateful for your seemingly endless content.

I like this theory however depending on the ice black armor could that be his nights watch armor frozen on his body I mean when the others come temperatures get frozen more so then when they aren’t there and Jon is fighting the army of others so depending on how much time has passed he could be freezing from the outside in and that is why his armor is frozen black right?

We have Bran the Builder who's using architectural magic and/or technology not seen in Westeros before or since to build all these fabled structures that last throughout time. LML and Aziz I think, have an excellent clue as to where to look for who might have been behind that in the Great Empire of the Dawn. One of them, the base of the Hightower, was built by Brandon or his son Brandon. A Stark ancestor is Brandon of the Bloody Blade killed a heck of a lot of CotF, which I think is probably tied into whatever the GEotD was doing in Westeros. Brandon seems unique among the children of Garth Greenhand to have an appetite for this sort of thing. So, I imagine Bran the Builder's archaeological prowess indicates that the Starks potentially (along with Dayne, Hightower and Lannister) can be traced to the GEotD. Another maybe hint is a bloody blade that has far more durability than bronze would indicate. So I'm of the opinion that it was Brandon's son who built the Hightower on Battle Isle. And I think this family application and LML's wanting to tie Azor Ahai to both House Stark and Essos really fits his theory well.

So many new parallels to be eagerly gobbled up 🍽 ...And Stannis obviously needs to gobble *something* Give 'im a serve.

Thank you! Beautiful Mormont/Oden/pirate symbolism at the very end!

Wow dude. You just made me realize why anyone resurrected by R’llhor seems to hone in on their dying wish: they are shadows. And shadows chase that which makes them.

I needed something I can fall asleep to and there you are.

LMLB bringing that 🔥 🔥 Much love from Orlando! #shadowclones

LML is the reason I’m able to make it through the work day. Thank you kind sir! 😊

love your work

Awesome theory! Thank you for all that you do! Also cute bird ❤️

excellent video

And a big thanks to LML for tonight’s upcoming Ice Spider nightmares. Cheers dude.

Always a pleasure listening to your theories. Love the idea that azor ahai is not a hero but the night king... Looking forward to wow and hope to see you're theories come true

I had asked this on the last stream but I had arrived too late so I'll leave this here as it's somewhat related. I know that it's no news that George pulls in a lot of inspiration from Nordic myth but I find that not many people actually dive deep into it, and seeing as how you have a knack for mythology, I'd say this is right in your wheelhouse. So, what do you think of the parallels between Jon or Stannis and the fire giant Surtr from the Norse mythology? He is the "Black one", guards the realm Muspell (land of fire, the opposite of lands of always winter), carries a burning sword, during Ragnarök fights against and kills the god Freyr (anglicized as Frey, heh), sort of breaks the Bifröst Bridge (a direct parallel to the Wall), and then lights the whole fucking planet on fire. That's not all, after he opens the way the frost giants Jötunn and "all the warriors from Hel" (basically Nordic Hades, ruled by the goddess Hel) will invade, being led by none other than Loki the Deceiver himself. There are multiple parallels between Hel and Melisandre, and between Loki and Bloodraven, though I'm sure you can find much more than that. Freyr is an interesting figure as well, outside of the similarities to House Frey with his name, he is a figure of bountiful harvest, virility, has a lot of phallic symbolism. Not that far off from old Walder with his extremely virile offspring making processes. But Freyr is also very similar to Garth Greenhand, especially with Stannis (Surtr/Grey King) killing Renly (Freyr/Garth). There is also that one event which I will directly quote from Wikipedia: "The most extensive surviving Freyr myth relates Freyr's falling in love with the female jötunn Gerðr. Eventually, she becomes his wife but first Freyr has to give away his sword which fights on its own "if wise be he who wields it." Although deprived of this weapon, Freyr defeats the jötunn Beli with an antler. However, lacking his sword, Freyr will be killed by the fire jötunn Surtr during the events of Ragnarök." I mean, you could make an entire hour's worth of video with that quote alone, it even has antler symbolism! I'm not even getting into the other parallels between Nordic and ASoIaF figures like Tyr and Jaime or Fenrir and Bran (tying Jaime's hand getting cut off directly to him pushing Bran out of the tower with that same hand is actually so fucking cool in that context), buuuuut if you were to talk about those as well, I wouldn't be the one to say no.

you are very good at this

I love these videos! I was sitting here thinking that the black in the black ice armor might be key, alluding to dragon glass or valaryan steel especially since Jon combines ice and fire so well, and then it is brought up in the video. Love the look-at-this-from-every-angle approach.

The amount of work that goes into things like this is crazy, even though it’s obviously not the case at all it’s still really impressive

at about 26min of this discussing ie. Starks as relatives to Azor (who was perhaps a dragon lord), occurred that in TSoIF there's mentioned legends of dragons sleeping bellow Winterfell. Unsure which book its referenced

HAIL LUCIFER (means Lightbringer)!

Gread video, thanks.

By the Gods! Maybe the night’s king has the crown of winter!?

Bran's dream in AGOT saying that Jon's skin becoming stiff and cold could also be referring to the Azor Ahai prophecy of awaking stone dragons, if the R + L = J theory is true in the books

When people ask me why I say this story is not over, those people are not my people. You and the others who watch your videos and comment are my people. Thank you for keeping the story alive. You've got to be a wizard or a mind reader, I don't need to know how you do this but hats off to you LML.

There is a possible symbolic link between House Stark and the Gemstone Emperors. The chalice Mace Tyrell gives Joffrey just before the Purple Wedding has the Stark direwolf on it in pearl. (Along with an onyx stag, opal sun and blue jade falcon.)

Love the way you analise the symbols, it's helping me with my own novel. It's more of a alternative 15th century scenario, very much based on Judeo-Christian-Islamic culture in every dream.

I want Night King to be like the Witch King of Agmar type of character. This way the prophecy of Ice and Fire will make sense when the Jon Snow series comes out. Jon is basically Frodo, who was subverted and portrayed as Aragon of the story while Daenerys is the gollum who is portrayed as Arwen, while sharing some similarities with Aragon and Boromir. If there's going to be a new series, it should be about Jon Snow dealing with the real great other with the red herring succeeded in fulfilling it's purpose.

Years late to add: The mother is the Stark. It is through her bloodline that her sons, fathered by “enemies”, are made Stark (kings). Lyanna, Bael’s bride… the Night’s Queen.

LmL, my man! Always a pleasure to leave a like in the first second

Rewatching this for probably the 5th time. This lore is some of my favorite in all the history of Planetos.

The King's guard was formed after Aegon conquered and there was attempts on his life 7 was for the 7 gods. There is no record of Kings guard from the empire of the dawn or valyria.

Enjoyable stuff 😎😎😎 Will you be rolling Moons of Ice and Fire with Blood Of The Other no. 6 into these new videos? Also, think you mentioned in moons were going to do a video on all the horns?

I love your videos!! I thought I had heard every possible theory regarding GoT, but I love your takes which feel refreshing and new! I also love the creepy background music! Would you please tell me the name of the song?

This guy is on the content train holy crap! 🚂

This is such a book breaking revelation. To have the idea of the hero everyone references throughout the narrative from days of yore being the actual main villain and creator of the Long Night and the Others.

Just read the title, haven’t listened. Yes, same character, you are correct sir!

We are blessed by you my good man

In light of all this stuff, I can't help but notice that the Tower of Joy is absolutely *thick* with Long Night symbolism. Ned losing (nearly) all his companions (a la the Last Hero) in a victorious fight against the Kingsguard (Others) to ride away with both the "promised" infant Prince of Ice and Fire (who is of his blood), and Dawn (Lightbringer). None of it matches up perfectly, but that's interesting in itself - what if the Tower of Joy is in some fashion a "truer" representation of the Long Night than the unreliable legends we've heard of it? And how in that case does Howland Reed fit into it - perhaps as a hint towards an uncredited role played by the Children of the Forest?

The story also sounds a little like meagor the cruel ending. As the fate of 7 and jeaherys team up to to kill him. Two enemies team up to bring him down.