Wilderness: The house in the vast universe: A metaphor for the old man of the century under the rule of God: a metaphor for the Pope, priests and daughters: a metaphor for us humans (the general public) Drunkards: a metaphor for the theologians who realize that God is dying Old horses: a metaphor Philosophers represented by Nietzsche (I didn't realize until I saw half the fucking way that the old horse was the metaphorical Nietzsche) Gypsies: the well of self-consciousness brought from the cosmic flood: the source of belief in God The night is exhausted: God is dead The last fire: awake and extinguished, extinguished and lit again, metaphor for the awakening of human self-consciousness. The sixth day: the era of human beings, in the darkness, groping for raw potatoes, or silence, etc. die.
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