Rule of Rose Mysteries

Masq says:

“…If memory serves me correctly, you coming here is the result of a trick played on you by your memories.

Or is it the mistake of a sad Princess who cannot come to terms with tragedy?

The meeting of the Prince and Princess… That was the cause of it all.

Listen to and accept the Princess’s feelings… That’s your only clue.“

A Sad Princess, by both of your interpretations, is in essance Jennifer.

Here’s a thought though. I remembered a time when it was considered that maybe Jennifer followed Gregory of her own free will after the airship crash and the first time she lost her memories.

“The mistake of a sad Princess who cannot come to terms with tragedy”

That or… There was also a time that we said Wendy may have knew Joshua before he died. If Wendy couldn’t come to terms with the tragedy of his death, that would not only explain why she latched on to Jen-as-Josh but also give an explination why Bucket Knight uses the word “Princess” here. Jen never calls herself princess and Wendy and the Orphans don’t call her princess.

As it stands, if Jennifer were the last one standing at the end of the day during the massacre, she would have then become, inherited, if you will, the princess title as she becomes the woeful princess at the end of the Little Princess story book. However, she’s not that far yet in her memories and we cannot yet see the end of the Little Princess story book. There is another princess with a line of girls behind her in wait for the title. Jennifer is hardly even a pauperin this point.

As Jennifer is referred to in this chapter most commonly as “Prince”, it stands to reason that in this chapter Wendy, the princess, is The Princess.

A princess who cannot come to terms with tragedy may in fact be a clue to what we were theorizing before however. Wendy not being able to come to terms with the loss of the first Prince. Her mistake is that she begins referring to and clinging to the idea of Jennifer as Joshua/her prince.

Just a thought I was having I’d put out there. I know it’s not all linear and is kind of abstract.

Masq says:

I understand that. Many of the would be important clues are that way.

PN, I was wondering if you were considering the myth I mentioned before in a previous thread about Orion. I think Orion may have been the character mold for Joshua, at least in an abstract sense, just as Diana and Diana/Artemis. They have differences, of course, but I was thinking…

If you look on Wikipedia, it says what I’ve said all along about mythology. There are many authors who believe many different things. However, the list of things that they give that Orion is connected with is kind of interesting…

Under “Orion”

The same source tells two stories of the death of Orion. The first says that because of his “living joined in too great a friendship” with Oenopion, he boasted to Artemis and Leto that he could kill anything which came from Earth. Earth objected and created the Scorpion.[21] In the second story, Apollo objected to his sister Artemis’s love for Orion, and, seeing Orion swimming with just his head visible, challenged her to shoot at that mark, which she hit, killing him.[22] He connects Orion with several constellations, not just Scorpio. Orion chased Pleione, the mother of the Pleiades, for seven years, until Zeus intervened and raised all of them to the stars.[23] In Works and Days, Orion chases the Pleiades themselves. Canis Minor and Canis Major are his dogs, the one in front is called Procyon. They chase Lepus, the hare, although Hyginus says some critics thought this too base a prey for the noble Orion and have him pursuing Taurus, the bull, instead.[24] A Renaissance mythographer adds other names for Orion’s dogs: Leucomelaena, Maera, Dromis, Cisseta, Lampuris, Lycoctonus, Ptoophagus, Arctophonus.[25]

Under “Oenopion”

Orion walked to Chios over the Aegean, and Oenopion welcomed him with a banquet; Orion got drunk and assaulted Merope. In revenge, Oenopion stabbed out Orion’s eyes, and then threw him off the island. Hephaestus took pity on the blind Orion and gave him his servant Cedalion as a guide. Cedalion guided him east, where the rising sun [Goddess Aurora] restored Orion’s sight. Orion then decided to kill Oenopion, but the Chians had built the king an underground fortress, and Orion couldn’t find him. (Other sources say it was an iron fortress, built by Hephaestus.) Orion then went to Crete.[Diana/Artemis' abode]

Under “Cedalion”

The more common story of Cedalion tells of his part in the healing of Orion, who came to Lemnos after he was blinded by Oenopion. Orion took up Cedalion[3] and set the youth upon his shoulders[4] for a guide to the East.[5] There the rays of Helios restored Orion’s sight.

So here we see that Orion has connection to Canis Major and Canis Minor, a big and small dog, Diana/Artemis, the Sky (to which he was risen), Chasing a Hare/Rabbit, a bull (a farm animal), and a Scorpian (an insect like in the onion bag), and being guided as one who is blind/incapable; also, depending on the story you read, Orion was said to be “tall enough” to wade through oceans, meaning he would be bigger than his peers. If you look at Wikipedia’s Orion article (under the mythology) you’ll also find him connected to a Nereid (sea nymph) called Opis, who was one of Diana’s huntresses.

In Greek mythology, the Nereids (neer’-ee-eds) (Νηρηΐδες) are sea nymphs, the fifty daughters of Nereus and Doris. They often accompany Poseidon and are always friendly and helpful towards sailors fighting perilous storms. They are particularly associated with the Aegean Sea, where they dwelt with their father in the depths within a silvery cave. The most notable of them are Thetis, wife of Peleus and mother of Achilles; Amphitrite, wife of Poseidon; and Galatea, love of the Cyclops Polyphemus.

I think it’s interesting that this one character has had so many similar incounters as Jennifer who was misnomered as Joshua, represented by a bear and who descended from the sky.l