Game of Thrones season 6: Fans translate Melisandre's prayer to analyse that *big reveal* in more detail
'We ask the Lord to shine his light...'
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Your support makes all the difference.** Spoilers for Game of Thrones season six, episode two **
So, it finally happened. After one episode being dead, Jon Snow returned to the land of the living, all thanks to Melisandre. No one saw that coming, right?
As unsurprising as the resurrection was, fans have still been left with a lot to speculate over. Is Jon Snow Azor Ahai, the Lord of Light, reborn? How will Melisandre react when he walks out of the room, the red priestess having stormed out last episode thinking she had failed? Will her faith in the Light be restored?
It’s no wonder that fans are curiously inspecting everything about the last episode in the hope of uncovering some new information. Some noticed that, if you watch the show with Norwegian subtitles on, the prayer Melisandre speaks is translated from High Valerian (the language of Essos) into Norwegian.
Thanks to Tumblr, we have that translation in English.
Zyhys oñoso jehikagon Aeksiot epi, se gis hen syndrorro jemagon.
“We ask the Lord to shine his light, and lead a soul out of darkness.”
Zyhys perzys stepagon Aeksio Oño jorepi, se morghultas lys qelitsos sikagon.
“We beg the Lord to share his fire, and light a candle that has gone out.”
Hen syndrorro, oños. Hen ñuqir, perzys. Hen morghot, glaeson.
“From darkness, light. From ashes, fire. From death, life.”
What’s immediately obvious is that she is praying to R’hllor, the Lord of Light. Having seemingly given up in her Lord at the end of episode one (thus taking off her necklace) this prayer was her one last shot at belief.
Notably, Jon Snow has left the darkness, come from the ashes and is now a fire, a light; all of which feeds into the idea of him being Azor reborn.
Other eagle-eyed fans have noted the similarities between the ritual performed on Jon Snow and the ritual performed on those who enter the Hall of Faces. Could Melisandre have used magic similar to that used by the Faceless Men to preserve the faces of those who die?
There has been little relationship between the Faceless and the Red Priests as yet, but perhaps there could be in the future? After all, Melisandre’s past in Essos has not been touched on hugely in the show, perhaps there is some relation.
Meanwhile, the titles of episodes four and five have been released, as have their plot descriptions.
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