: Interesting indeed. The statue does, as you state, represent the different
: kingdoms that would rule. If I remember correctly the point of the dream
: was that Babylon was going to fall due mostly to the king's pride.
I think, and most scholars of the Bible and Scripture also believe, that there was portent not just for Babylon, but for the future kingdoms. There's one thing all those kingdoms have in common: they were all destroyed eventually. Reduced to nothing more than dust, echoes, and bylines in history.
But the way they fell was what struck me: they all fell apart first from the inside, and largely due to what happened inside, namely the corruption that festered within them. First making them blind to the forces of Chaos, then making them the victims thereof.
Heh. First the creation of Chaos, then the destruction thereof, where those who remain live in that chaos. Reminds me of the W'rcacnter, beings who lived within, and created chaos around them. Perhaps not a physical chaos that invited physical destruction per se, but the eventual destruction by first making them make themselves vulnerable.
Remindes me of Lethe to be honest.
The question then lends: where does our hero stand?
