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Here's The Prayer That Revived Jon Snow In Game Of Thrones Translated By Creator Of High Valyrian

Here's The Prayer That Revived Jon Snow In Game Of Thrones Translated By Creator Of High Valyrian

It's that simple...

George Pavlou

George Pavlou

I'm getting quite tired of having to say it but people are real jumpy on the internet and so, as always, if you haven't seen the second episode of season six of Game of Thrones, do not continue reading. There are spoilers.

Jon Snow is alive. What we all knew would happen from the moment he got stabbed at the end of season five by that snotty little shit Olly, has happened.

It was a weirdly symbolic event, and had drawn comparisons to the resurrection of Jesus Christ in The Bible, what with the naked body, the washing of the hair, the cleansing of the body and the ritualistic nature of it all.

The Lady Melisandre performed the ritual, reciting a mystical prayer in a completely made up language. You probably just sat there, hand over mouth, desperate for him to wake up, head to the cells and stab the fuck out of that treacherous wanker Ser Alliser.

Alas, we had to sit there and listen to her recite some words in High Valyrian that no one other than top GoT nerds (nothing wrong with that by the way) and the man who invented the language could understand.

Thankfully, the linguist who created High Valyrian, David J. Peterson, took to his blog following the episode to translate what Carice Van Houten had said. It went a little something like this...

"Zȳhys ōñoso jehikagon Āeksiot epi, se gīs hen sȳndrorro jemagon."

"We ask the Lord to shine his light, and lead a soul out of darkness."

"Zȳhys perzys stepagon Āeksio Ōño jorepi, se morghūltas lȳs qēlītsos sikagon."

"We beg the Lord to share his fire, and light a candle that has gone out."

"Hen sȳndrorro, ōños. Hen ñuqīr, perzys. Hen morghot, glaeson."

"From darkness, light. From ashes, fire. From death, life."

Glaeson in English means life... sick.

Anyway, it all seems pretty basic, very much unlike the theories now surrounding the resurrection of Jon Snow. Some corners of the GoT fandom are arguing that Jon Snow's recovery wasn't anything to do with the Lord of Light or the Lady Melisandre's ritual but in fact was his own doing.

Apparently, there's a theory going that Jon was able to tap into his own mystical powers and was able to transform his own consciousness into his direwolf Ghost and then back into his own body.

Seems a bit too convenient for me. Like, he's been dead for a little while now, and he chooses to wait until the ritual is done and everybody leaves the room before waking? Pull the other one.

Equally, this is a world where dragons exist and the dead can bring dead people back to life to create more dead people. Anything goes.

Director of episode two, "Home", Jeremy Podeswa decided to dodge questions about Jon Snow's revival, simply telling the Hollywood Reporter: "I cannot answer this question.

"I would say if you keep watching, all will be revealed. Better to leave it to the fans to discover."

Indeed we will be glued to our screens next week to find out just what is going to happen next.

Words by George Pavlou

All images courtesy of HBO

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Topics: Jon Snow, Game of Thrones