Battle for Varden

The symbolism in this photograph is interesting and most likely deliberate. Eragon's sword, placed as it is, represents the phallus. In this case it is grotesquely oversized. Throughout mythology, Fools are represented as having enormous phalluses or sometimes noses, representing the phallus. The phallus, I believe, is a manifestation of his earth power, while his higher realm power is represented by his heart. There is some balance between the two. (It is unclear to me whether the Fool must be chaste. While a being possessed of primarily higher-realm power must be chaste in order to decouple from 3-space, it is not clear that one who is to remain here, the Fool, the bodhisattva, must be chaste.)

It is implied in the film that dragonriders --Eragon is the first in a revived line of dragonriders-- are related to fools. Eragon's mentor displays characteristics of the Fool. And his mentor refers to Eragon as "one part brave, three parts fool."

Four is a very interesting number to me. It keeps recurring for some reason. I meditate on this number at great length. "Three and four mark the door." Eragon is a doorway between two worlds. Janus. Three and four are seven, a holy number.

In this informational system, certain numbers reappear. The wise heed signs, or patterns that point the way.

The details of this I do not yet know, but there is some relation between the Fool and aleph and truth and chaos and destruction and rebirth. The Fool exists only in the present moment, he is forgiving, and he values simplicity.