Queen Iduna’s Letter Part 2 – Describing the Signs

Dedicated to Mother.

This post has been long delayed. I have not looked closely at the pictures since August of last year, and I have already forgotten my previous interpretations of the images.

No matter. A fresh pair of eyes might be helpful. Then again, I am probably not going to find anything true in the pictures. If the creators from Disney happen to want to chime in, that would be great. If they have and I just haven’t seen the footage, sorry.

In this post, I will just be listing the lines 1 by 1, from top to bottom in the message. That is already a pretty tedious task.

Lines 0 and 1

I have already mentioned the possible ‘Elsa’ glyph in the last post, in the second last position. Assuming that the bell-like shape with sticks going in a V shape means ‘person’, then there are two more people in this line, the 1st and 3rd glyphs. The first one is dressed differently though, but is ‘holding up’ a round ball, kind of like how ‘Elsa’ is holding up the diamonds for ‘Fire’, ‘Wind’, and ‘Earth’. The 3rd glyph shows a person casting an eight-pointed star? Might be Elsa again, because the star might represent the compass thingy that Frozen II was marketed with. Between the 2 glyphs there is a…multicoloured ball? And then in the middle, there are the four glyphs for the spirits – but wait, why is the ‘Wind’ glyph coloured in the opposite way to the rest?

Then at the end there’s a K, and then a diamond.

Line 2

There’s that differently dressed person again, pointing to the right. Then ‘Water’. Then a diamond. Then a yellow sun. Then ‘Earth’, with a bit of yellow. Then ‘Water’. Then ‘Earth’ again, with the same colours but coloured opposite to the previous ‘Water’ glyph. Then a ( : ) shape, then ‘Water’ mixed with ‘Fire’, and then ‘Water’ mixed with ‘Wind’. Then finally another, bigger ( : ) shape.

Line 3

Two different leaves (which I can’t identify, sorry). A diving fish. A reindeer. Two people, one with trousers on the left, one with a skirt on the right – they are coloured oppositely. Then the skirted person is on the left and the trousered person on the right, and now coloured consistently. Then a symbol like in line 1 which looks like a K, then person with water inside: ‘Elsa’.

Line 4

A river. A fish. Skirt and trousers, this time in waves. Skirt and fish, in waves. Person going under dark waters. Person going under light waters. Two slightly different diamonds with light dots in the middle, and then a ( : ) shape, but imbalanced slightly.

Line 5

A person like in Line 2, but cut off by the screen in the movie. 3 small diamonds of ‘Wind’, ‘Earth’, and ‘Fire’ – hey wait, ‘Earth’ is coloured differently again (like in Line 2). Then a new kind of person-glyph – almost looks like Elsa’s old ice dress, and then a dark-coloured ‘water in person’ (‘Elsa’). Then a multicoloured ball like in Line 1, then a diamond, and then, interestingly, 2 downward-pointing cat ears and a dark dot beneath it.

Other details

The last glyphs of the downward-pointing cat ears are interesting because the are the only bigger glyphs that don’t align themselves vertically, but instead horizontally, on the ‘floor’ relative to the other glyphs. Do they have a special function: marking the end of the text? marking the end of a series of related ideas?

Then there are the small triangles and multi-sized dots and diamonds going around, and that K thing. Are they punctuation? Do they show the start or end of one idea or one time period?

And then the colours – everything is dark, or paper-coloured, or light blue, except the sun in Line 2 and part of the ‘Earth’ symbol to its right. The elemental spirits’ glyphs are often in light blue – is light blue reserved for the spirits?
What is the difference between an all-dark hexagon around a glyph, versus the meaning of a half-dark half-paper-coloured hexagon? Why are there 2 separate images of people going under the water, but the colours are reversed? Is there a reason why so few of the hexagons are dark on the top half but light on the bottom half?

In fact, the hexagons which have dark on top and light below happen 2 times with the figure in a skirt (Lines 3, 4), and then 2 times with the weird half-and-half ball (Lines 1, 5). Can I guess that the second figure under the water in Line 4, with dark hexagon top and light hexagon bottom, is the same character as in the other 2 instances?

All this and more, in the next post!

I won’t keep you waiting too long – I don’t want to lose my own interpretations too.

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