Bloodraven is Jon's father
This theory suddenly came to me, and I will try to concizely explain it (in advance: I lost two drafts so sorry for spelling errors, I shall edit them, I wanted to put this "on paper"):
- Connections stemming from (Hebrew) names meanings:
- Brynden is a variant of Brandon, and means (i) Prince, and/or (ii) little raven, and/or sword, and/or fire hill; a Blackwood living in the dark immersed by a net of wood's roots, a Rivers (under item 3. below).
- Bran is Brandon, a Prince (he is in fact currently a King in the North), and a little raven as Bloodraven's student. He plays the role of King David.
- Catelyn, his mother, is s variant of Catherine, which means (i) pure, as Cat was until her death, but (ii) but after her death, she became Lady Stoneheart, which is an interesting choice of words:
Book of Ezekiel 36:26
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.”
This is the only place where flesh is mentioned positively in the Bible.
A digression: from a literal perspective she is/was a cat (continuous use of nickname!), a lioness (Lannister attitude!), protecting her cubs. Her story may end as a Corpse Queen with Jaime as Night King on the Wall (Jaime is a variant of James, whose name means he who supplants, and he may very well supplant the position of the Night King).
Jon is short for Jonathan and stands for Gift of God -> may be easily constructed as gift of Old Gods, and as divine gift may point to its divine occurance.
Lyanna stands for light.
Shiera Seastar stands for Song (Shiera). Seastar is the name for Holy Mother Mary whose name stems from Miriam, meaning bitter. GRRM warned of a bitter-sweet ending.
- Problem required to solve
- Rhaegar and Lyanna's attitude: Rhaegar is a romantic, empathetic, melancholic dreamer, a Lyanna wants to be respected in marriage
- There is no explanaton why they did the opposite on the Tourney and afterwards, demonstrating huge lack of respect to Elia, Robert, Rickard abd Brandon, to Dorne, Stormlands and the North, eventually leading to Rickard and Brandon' deaths and civil war
3. Discussion and Invitation for Discussion
- The biggest sin of a warg, which Bloodraven is, is to warg into people: he did it and will do it again
- Yet Bloodraven must have warged into Lyanna and Rhaegar during the Tourney and the war, effecively stopping either from preventing anything (inconsistent with their personalities!). Because Bloodraven is s sword snd Lyanna is Lifht, their connection may have prompted the Others to move
- Bloodraven's motivation: his body is dying and giving up, but the mind will not, he is egoistic and sure that he alone can rule and protect the Realm, so he is motivated to: 1) become King of the Realm by warging into his own son, and (2) install his heir in the woods' roots. Looking towards the future, he must (3) find the prophetic sword to bring Dawn/Light through Bran or Jon, and he is the one who both allowed and controlled abd stopped the events in Summerhall
- RE Item 1:
-What happened to Lyanna (Light) was reverse Immaculate conception by Bloodraven (see the meaning of Jon's name under Item 1. above), with Bloodraven only using Rhaegar's body as vessel. Jon truly is a miracle child, gift of Old Gods to fight the Others.
- Let us put in comparison Lyanna (Light) and Shiera Seastar. Shiera alone stands for song (A Song of Targaryen Dragon Fire and Stark Water/Ice?), but Seastar is literally Star of the Sea, which is Holy Mother Mary (her name also stands for bitter): Bloodraven chose Lyanna, but Lyanna and Shiera Seastar jointly stand for a bitter song of light and sea (close to series name and Martin's promise of bittersweet ending).
- But Bran is the figure of (future king) David, Jonathan's best friend, and connected as if they are one soul (see Samuel 1:18), in Martin's version Bloodraven intervened for Bran to save him, and it was sufficient to make him more ready for kingship than Jon.
- Bran (also means beloved) is Cat's only boy that does not look like a Tully. Bran answered Bloodraven's call perhaps while he was in Cat's womb, and is stronger than Jon: Bloodraven now understands that like Abraham, but with tragic end, as Old Gods are blood-thirsty, he will have to sacrifice his son (Jon will never sit on the Throne, not even as a vessel, but his place is among the roots behind the Wall, like his father before him), and use Bran in his scheme to get on the Iron Throne, from which he will rule Westeros and the North/Wall via Jon.
-Jon (Jonathan) and (King) Bran's relationship, explained as one soul in two bodies, is explained in Samuel 1; Samwell is a variant of Samuel, meaning that this is a biblical book Martin was inspired by (remember Sam was sent to get formal education in the Citadel, and may be the one to write about this issue).
- Because David also means uncle, and an uncle is an indication as a relative to someone, so are Ned and Lyanna literally, uncle and aunt to our Jon and Bran, respectively, but also: Bran and Bloodraven stand it that relationship towards Jon because Bloodraven (who is also Bran, or will become Bran) is Lyanna's partner, and hence Jon's father and uncle at the same time (time is not linear).
- King David is also associated with Goliath, which stands, in Chrich canon, as a symbol for formidable enemy: Winter thst is coming.
- But not every winter is associated with WW. Indeed, within my theory they started walking incited by Bloodraven's sin of warging into Rhaegar and Lyanna to be born again, but tragically to be younger and able to combat WWs;
- Little note: Samuel 1 states that Jonathan (our Jon) is a good archer, and we meet the boys practising archery.
- Apart from Book Samuel 1, attention must be given to the story of Jonah (also Jon) who was devoured by a fish (Catelyn's attiitude and fish as Tully sigil?).
-Specific attention must ve given to the fact that names Brynden and Bran also mean sword, perhaps a person is the sword: Bran or Brynden (Black sister?) are symbolically intended to bring Dawn/Light.
- Dragons bring fire, and fire is the first useful human didcivery and invention. Fire symbolically represents light and warmth: 1) a dragon for Bran who "will fly" (who will become king, as it turned out for Bloodraven), for Jon who is Bloodraven's son (who will have to take the place among the roots) and for Dany, a mother disconnected from Bloodraven so much that she will likely die, just like like Aegon, the black dragon, whom Dany's dragons will not accept.
- Due to similarities Lady Stoneheart, while alive, has with cats (Cat), I would not be surprised if her and Jaime took place as Night King and Corpse Queen.