Originally Posted by
seismic-2
I'm even more confused now about Woden's machine that (supposedly) doesn't do anything. We now know that the previous Woden (who also wasn't really a god but just a functionary who stored hidden treasures in a "tabernacle") constructed a machine to trap the era's zeitgeist, or so he thought, but it actually trapped something else instead. What was it that the machine trapped, and what did Ananke do with whatever it was? Is the present machine a device to trap the same thing? If so, why did Ananke tie Minerva to it?
Also, in the current issue we see the origin of (but don't yet understand) Ananke's need for four skulls. She and her sister would each get four skulls, but who is this third entity who gets the other three? Does this have anything to do with the Great Darkness, or is there yet another force at work here?