The Father, also called the Father Above,[1] is one of the seven aspects of a single deity. Believers of the Faith of the Seven consider their god to be one with seven aspects, as the sept is a single building, with seven walls.[2]
Culture
[edit]The Father, who is always depicted as a bearded man,[2] rules[3] and represents judgment.[4][5] He can be prayed to for justice.[2] Septons teach that the Father protects his children,[6] to whom he gives gifts,[7] and that he has a golden hall.[8]
Weddings are conducted standing between the altars of the Father and the Mother.[9][10]
Upon someone's death, the phrase "May the Father judge him/her justly" is often used.[11][12][13]
There is a holy day in the calendar of the Faith of the Seven celebrating the Father called the Feast Day of Our Father Above. According to the septons, it is a most auspicious day for making judgements.[14]
Some of the doors at the Great Sept of Baelor are known as the Father's Doors.[15]
Holy brothers of the Faith shave the crown of their head to show they have nothing to hide from the Father.[16]
History
[edit]The Faith of the Seven teaches that the Father pulled down seven stars from the heavens and set them on the brow of Hugor of the Hill, thereby making him a glowing crown.[17] The Father and the Mother are said to have made mankind in their image.[7][18]
Recent Events
[edit]A Clash of Kings
[edit]
At Cobbler's Square in King's Landing, a prophet refers to the red comet as the Father's scourge.[19]
Catelyn Stark prays in a nameless village's sept near Storm's End. The sept is modest and has no statues of the Seven, only rough charcoal drawings to represent them. Catelyn prays to the Father for for justice, the strength to seek it, and the wisdom to know it.[2]
A Storm of Swords
[edit]Northmen seeking Ser Jaime Lannister sack the sept at Sallydance, looting the silver crown worn by its depiction of the Father.[20]
A Feast for Crows
[edit]While standing vigil over the body of his father, Lord Tywin Lannister, in the Great Sept of Baelor, Jaime thinks of Brienne of Tarth and wants the Father to give her strength in her quest to find Sansa Stark.[15]
Ser Lancel Lannister prays to the Father and decides to renounce his lordship of Darry and his marriage to Amerei Frey.[21]
Quotes
[edit]Kevan: Ser Addam has found some crystals from the High Septon's crown. It appears certain now that the thieves broke up the crystals and melted down the gold.
High Septon: Our Father Above knows their guilt and will sit in judgment on them all.[22]—Kevan Lannister and the new High Septon
The Father's face is stern and strong,
he sits and judges right from wrong.
He weighs our lives, the short and long,
and loves the little children.[23]—Samwell Tarly singing from "The Song of the Seven"
Judge not, for judgment is the Father's.[24]
—Barefoot septon to his followers
References
[edit]- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 2, Catelyn I.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 33, Catelyn IV.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 25, Brienne V.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 25, Davos III.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 17, Cersei IV.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 5, Davos I.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 14, Tyrion IV.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 35, Samwell IV.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 28, Sansa III.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 60, Tyrion VIII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 62, Jaime VII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 63, Davos VI.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 31, Brienne VI.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 8, Jaime I.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 9, Brienne II.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 5, Tyrion II.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 18, Tyrion V.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 20, Tyrion V.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 22, Arya IV.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 30, Jaime IV.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 19, Tyrion III.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 46, Samwell III.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 4, Brienne I.
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