The Ìkaron Seed

From the Latin Ìkaros, better known as Icarus.

Often times in life we will experience something once, something grand and magnificent, that we will never experience again. Not because it does not exist, but because it is no longer available to us. For example, driving someone else's car with heated seats in the dead of winter is enjoyable, but then you return to driving your own car that only manages to heat up by the time you reach your destination. One might say you would be better off not having experienced the luxury of heated seats in the first place. But the feeling isn't congruent with that logic. Rather, you find yourself longing for heated seats and cursing the worthlessness of your unheated seats. Something that once was an annoyance (in this case, a cold bum) is now a cause of frustration.

All metaphors aside, I see this concept in Untitled. The seed grows in a man who comes to know the Eternal Brother, or perhaps one of the many angels. (Side note. Angels the wives of the Eternal Brother; the mothers of the First Sons whose deaths caused the Eternal Brother to return to the Earth? Might get a little weird with the "expressive storytelling" later. A matter to discuss.) So, a man receives the Ìkaron Seed and begins to separate from the world. First he seeks comfort in his fellow man, but grows weary of their insignificance and of their impurity. The man escapes civilization and attempts to surround himself in pure, untainted earth, be this in caves or forests or even the unending oceans. But the man cannot escape civilization; it exists in him. So the man finally attempts to separate himself from the World; transcending to a place not known to the world. The World itself reaches a twisting spire of earth skyward after the transcendent man. Civilized man knows only stories of these remote spires, and knows less about what lies at the top of them.

Men can only see the physical result of the Ìkaron Seed. They see their sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, parents and grandparents afflicted with this seed abandon all earthly relations never to be seen again. The Ìkaron Seed is seen as a terrible curse by many in civilized society. They understand the effects to be the afflicted's desire to escape civil duties.

Perhaps the Ìkaron Seed refers to the name of the Eternal Brother, possibly one of many. For it would make sense that one who stands before Ìkaron might be infected with his seed.

That's all for now. We had better start laying some solid story out of these assets.