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Hi Rose and Cathy,

Thank you Rose and Cathy for sharing your amazing examples. I have many examples of buried symbology in my WIP that are expounded upon and revealed later in the story.  The very place of “The Mid-World” and the Hidden Kingdom referred to as “Excavatia” all have this buried and later revealed symbology and subtext that contains many layers of subtext.  The “dead city” of “Azragoth” is symbolic of biblical Jerusalem in the “Surface World”.  The city has become a “haunt of jackals and wild donkeys” and has been overtaken and overgrown by the surrounding forest. It was left for dead, because of plague and was quarantined and abandoned for twenty years, by the dominating Xarmnian armies that tried to take over the commercial city and unwittingly unleashed the plague.  The city’s neglect of the sewage buildup underneath their city led in part to the plague as well.  The sewage and filth brought on the infestation of rats.  The Xarmnia’s hostile take over of the unguarded marketplace in the city, and the subsequent slaughtering of some of its citizens, refusing to let the captives recover the dead slain in their streets, leads to rat infestation into the water supply and nightly devouring the slain, cause the disease to break out.  The whole scenario is subtext both for its similarity of the fall of ancient Jerusalem, but also as a harbinger warning of a city unguarded and unconcerned about the corruption below its “streets”/consciousness.

Sin, undealt with, leads to infestation and eventually becomes a plague upon a person, even if they seem to be the center of attention, and fairly successful.  Unconfessed sin will grow and leave a person susceptible to the invasion of the enemy and subsequent casualties of those we care about in our lives.

Azragoth has a concentric design with an outer wall and a series of inner walls and appears dead and abandoned, lost to the overgrowth of the surrounding forest, with even the road overgrown and lost under the wild grasses.  But there is an inner-city, hidden by the outward appearance of the overgrown and dead and abandoned outer rings.  Within is a remnant of the citizenry that has survived the plague.  This concept was written and imagined back in 2017, long before the disturbing events of our modern time.

It almost feels like this story was a portentous dream of our present times.

It is this remnant that became the heart and secret headquarters of the resistance against the Xarmnian rule.  There is a series of underground networks and tunnels beneath the city so in a way these underground passages serve as a kind of subtext symbology, and it is this underground that is later exploited by another monstrous enemy.

Rose your symbology of the Blood representing the duality of “guilt” and “sacrifice” is a powerful analogy, and the fact that these images and experiences come from Liorah’s dreams are also portentous.

Cathy, the doll symbology is also chilling.  The manipulation is a kind of talisman voodoo doll, which is what the enemy attempt to plague real people with. Satan creates a mental caricature of us and plants it in our own minds, and then he abuses the representation of this idea of who we are and makes us feel small and victimized, presenting himself as a threat to us.  But our identity is truly and happily found in Christ himself, and his representation of us to us in his “doll” is not true.  When we discover that, Satan can no longer manipulate us by fear, or threaten us when we realize we are safely held and made secure by Christ Jesus.
Bravo!