r/FromCircleJerk
u/Historical_Stay_808 — 8 days ago
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Is it just me, or why is Julie calling Tabitha as mom'? Isn't Tabitha Ethan's mom?
u/angkoeeeyyyyy — 1 day ago
they were so scared of being caught reading kids book together and decided to hide it to look even more suspicious lmfao
u/snotpop — 3 days ago
u/Important-Hall-1484 — 6 days ago
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Fatima's child's bad behavior is connected to her being an absent mother. She values playing with dirt over being a good mom.
u/Thebigdumbbimbo — 1 day ago
The Man in Yellow is Azazel and his consort is Lilith. The origin story of FROMLAND begins in the Garden of Eden.
The Man in Yellow is Azazel — the chief fallen angel from the Book of Enoch and the demon the Day of Atonement scapegoat is sent to in Leviticus 16. He's the angel who taught humanity forbidden knowledge, and he and his companions were punished for it. He's basically the fallen angel of Jewish apocalyptic tradition. KNOWLEDGE COMES WITH A COST is basically his life story, and goats and sacrifical rams are his call-sign.
Lilith is in the show too — Adam's first wife in Jewish folklore, who refused to submit to him, fled Eden, and became the original demon-queen and child-killer of the night. In some traditions she and Azazel are the original couple — she fled Eden to find a celestial lover, and was forced to sacrifice her children.
Here's the evidence on the show:
💃 John Griffin has said the MiY was inspired by a street dancer in a yellow suit he described as "dancing and moving with such joy, it looked like an angel trying out his body for the first time" — Griffin literally calling him an angel. https://youtu.be/-mLxQTgZj_E?t=3371
🐏 The hanging ram. (thanks Robert Saunders for pointing pointing out it is a ram not a goat).
📖 Sophia quotes Genesis 22 — the Akedah, the binding of Isaac, where the ram appears caught in a thicket as Isaac's substitute
📖 Sophia quotes Joshua 7 — the Achan story, where one man's hidden sin causes the entire nation of Israel to suffer collective punishment. Azazel is the epitomy of collective punishment
🔮 The MiY is a shapeshifter (Sophia is just one of his disguises)
🪞 Mirrors all over the show — characters constantly looking in them. Azazel is specifically called out for teaching humanity to make mirrors.
🐐 Goats everywhere — Boyd finding the goat (in a drawing and in reality), Nathan's goats, Alma the goat.
Knowledge comes with a cost and goats are basically Azazel's call-sign
😇 Elgin literally talks about real real biblical angels — the terrifying multi-eyed kind, not Renaissance cherubs. "He calls the kimono wraith an angel directly.
Elgin: Remember now, there's a reason why angels say 'Fear not' when they saw someone. Even Gabriel was terrifying.
Julie: Wow. Look at you, Mr. Bible Study.
🙃 The upside-down angel picture Ellis drew. At first, it's upright. Later, it has fallen upsidedown, hanging by a single pin.
🥩 MiY eating liver is reminscent of Prometheus's punishment for having his liver pecked out, another giver of forbidden knowledge punished by their god.
🚘 Numberplate beginning with AZ, I.E. Azazel.
Now here's why every one of these points to Azazel specifically:
The ram. Leviticus 16 is the only ritual in the Bible where a goat is sent to a named demon — Azazel — into the wilderness. It's literally where the word "scapegoat" comes from. The Akedah substitution-ram is the same sacrificial tradition. Sophia speaks the Akedah chapter, the show shows us a ram. Twice signed.
Collective punishment. 1 Enoch 10:7–8 says: "the whole earth has been corrupted by the works of Azazel." One angel's sin condemns all of humanity. That's exactly the theological mechanism of the Achan story Sophia just recited. She's quoting Azazel's signature.
The shapeshifter clue is the killer for me. In the Apocalypse of Abraham (a real Jewish apocryphal text), Azazel disguises himself as a bird and tries to interrupt Abraham's sacrifice. Just as Sophia's wrist is broken, so too is the bird's wing. Perhaps she transformed and followed them through the woods.
Mirrors are his. In 1 Enoch 8, Azazel taught humanity "the use of antimony for the eyes, the beautifying of eyelids, every kind of costly stone, all dyes, and the making of mirrors" — alongside weapons. Mirrors are literally one of the things he taught humanity. That's why everyone in this show is staring into them constantly.
Knowledge is his sin. Same passage in 1 Enoch 8 — Azazel as the teacher of forbidden knowledge. The MiY's whole vibe is "I'll tell you secrets you weren't meant to know."
The upside-down angel. 1 Enoch 10:4–6 — Raphael is told to bind Azazel hand and foot, cast him into darkness in the desert of Dudael, and place jagged rocks upon him. Face-down in the pit. The image is direct.
Elgin's "real biblical angels" comment tells us we're in 1 Enoch territory, not Sunday-school Christianity. And in 1 Enoch, Azazel is the chief Watcher, the most-named, the one who gets the worst punishment. He's the fallen angel of that tradition.
LILITH:
🦉 The owls. Eloise drew an orange owl coming out of a basket. Elgin's grandmother knitted owls. Scott McCord draws an orange owl at FROM conventions and has called one Victor's spirit animal in interviews. The word KN-OWL-EDG-E in the barn cuts out OWL.
In Hebrew tradition (Isaiah 34:14), Lilith is translated as a "night monster" or "screech owl," placing her firmly as a creature that is awake while others sleep.
She is often associated with causing sleep disorders like insomnia, sleep deprivation, or sleep paralysis (the "night hag" or "night mare" visiting those sleeping alone).
7 Angels - 4 Cursed Humans
In fact there are signs that 7 fallen angels, once willing to teach humanity and later punished collectively for it, are taking possession of those on the show, waiting for characters to be suffused with sufficient emotion for them to make the transition, like pain, sadness, joy, or hope. It may even be some already have been, some overtly, some simply influenced, like Ethan, Donna, Kenny, Tilly, Boyd and Clara.
credit to source: https://www.reddit.com/r/FromSeries/comments/1igkxwt/angel_boyd/#lightbox
Indeed, with Jasper the doll, the nkondi-like totems, the moving scarecrows seen in the trailer, and the creation of a golem, it would seem these angels can possess objects, and perhaps even corpses, temporarily too, like demons. It's possible the monsters are the spirits of the original villagers possessing the corpses of the victims of Fromtown from the 50s and 60s. The magic involved likely involves bodily fluids, organs, hair and/or teeth.
I also believe there are 4 cursed humans reincarnating, though the 4 may reference some other set of beings, perhaps demons. There are also animals that these angels can transform into. Here's my map so far. You may have seen some of these symbols recurring on the show.
Indeed, it is my belief that these angels have been living on the island of Newfoundland for much of their history, taking on the roles of the various mythical and religious figures in legends about mysterious islands, potentially including:
MOUNT ARRARAT & CANAAN
GREEK STROPHADES
CANAANITE OPHIR
EGYPTIAN PUNT
WELSH AVALON
IRISH PROMISED LAND
SINBAD'S ISLE
VIKING VINLAND
DANTE'S COMEDY
TEMPLAR/CATHAR ESTOTILAND
TUDOR NEWFOUNDLAND
This is why the show is layered with Greek, Norse, and other mythological references — these aren't red herrings, but rather cycles of the same seven angels appearing in different cultural costumes across history.
The Norse layer is important. Leif Erikson reached Newfoundland around 1000 AD and built a church there in Vinland. His sister Freydis was on a later expedition — famous for finding a beached whale, a conflict between christians and pagans, and a brutal massacre of her fellow Norse settlers. I think the Vikings are the original builders of the church we see in Fromland, and they're why Duluth was mentioned on the show — Duluth has the famous Leif Erikson ship replica in Leif Erikson Park. Ethan's book bag in Season 1 is covered in whales, which is Freydis-coded directly. The Vikings landed in Jellyfish Cove.
Then comes the 1498 layer: John Cabot's lost expedition, accompanied by a priest (Giovabnni Carbonariis), a barber/surgeon (unnamed) and a sherrif (Richard Amerike) who legend says named America (Mr Liu: "he want AMERICA name". His ship was called the Matthew, and Boyd's Cove is a real location in Newfoundland associated with early contact between European explorers and the Beothuk — the indigenous people of Newfoundland, known for painting their bodies red with ochre (which would explain a lot of the red imagery on the show, including the red-painted figures).
In my reading, Abaddon takes on the role of a genuine Beothuk devil they genuinely called "The Man in Black" who lived by a lake with his sea-monster servant — likely portrayed in the show as a Newfoundland red lion's-mane jellyfish, the largest jellyfish in the world, native to those waters. Remember Boyd's line: "we called him Schmuckers because he loved Jelly."
The seven angels get trapped in a witch's bottle by a cunning folk woman from the expedition (you'll have noticed how many bottles appear throughout the show — and Pratt, the surname of several characters, means cunning in Middle English, alongside many other cunning-folk references). She is accused of being a witch using the Inquisition's book Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches), a world bestseller at the time (Khatri's bestseller references to Sarah) — which is why we see a hammer used as a torture implement on the show, and extras carrying hammers in background shots.
Part of how she traps the angels is by challenging them to a game. Medieval tarot cards — and this is the tarot theory I've been developing since before Tilly ever pulled out a deck — alongside crokinole-style medieval board games. Game of Goose is the strongest match: its hazards correspond directly to the places in Fromland (the Well, the Hotel, the Maze, the Prison). Pachisi is another (the cross-shape, and 12 safe-castle tiles that mirror the talismans).
I suspect this game takes place right after the sacrifice.
More on the games here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/FromTVEpix/comments/1fxvi8v/imo_what_tilly_says_about_the_tarot_cards_are_the/
and here
https://youtu.be/nmtqYOSH1XI
u/TaranMatharu — 2 days ago
Did anyone else notice Randall is basically copying the Cowboy Monster stance?
Did anyone else notice Randall is basically doing the Cowboy Monster stance? 😭
Randomly connected this during watching an edit, so credit to whoever originally made it but after rewatching I can’t unsee it.
Same hands-on-belt pose, same posture, same “standing there menacingly” energy.
Either:
the show is doing visual foreshadowing, or
Randall saw bro once and said “yeah I’m stealing that aura”
Am I reaching or does this actually feel intentional?
u/greatestshowman923 — 2 days ago
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Shoutout to the guy in the sex and drugs house whos best chance of getting laid was with a human eating monster that looks like a 14 year old
u/purinatrucks — 1 day ago
Don't get me wrong, the story is getting crazy, but nothing beats the pure psychological horror of Season 1. The way they would just stand at the windows, smiling, using people’s trauma against them, and politely asking to come inside was so unsettling.
The pure manipulation and rage-baiting made them feel so much more intelligent and terrifying than just mindless killing machines. Who was your favorite monster from the "talking" era?
u/Dependent-Space-2021 — 7 days ago
u/angkoeeeyyyyy — 11 days ago