I noticed that the three male faces of the Godhead in Game of Thrones nearly match the three primary roles of men, according to Ex Cathedra. The bedrock of the archetypal male is fathering, fighting and feeding. The Father and the Warrior are two of the Seven's faces. The third male face, the Smith, while not a hunter, does resonate with the requirement that males have mastery of certain skills needed to maintain life. In a post-hunter/gatherer society, the artisan who makes tools (and weapons) is in that ballpark. In Western pagan terms, we have here Zeus/Odin, Mars and Vulcan.
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In the lore, the Father is invoked in matters of judgment. So two Male archetypes for the price of one.
The religions are all interesting, with some obvious real-world correlations. The Seven is a more polytheistic Catholicism, the Old Gods is Druidism with some Jewish elements, especially a near obsession with hospitality. The Drowned God seems like a mishmash of Germanic faith and Christianity via the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. The Faith of R'hllor is an unholy union of Zoroastrianism and Islam. A new religion that will be featured in future seasons is the Many-Faced God, a syncretic combination of all death gods worshipped by an order of assassins (remember Jaqen H'gar?). Very interesting.
-Sean
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