- This page is about the holy text. For the short, see: The Seven-Pointed Star (short)
The Seven-Pointed Star, holy text of the Faith of the Seven.
- The High Sparrow: "I serve the gods, the gods demand justice."
- Olenna Tyrell: "How do they communicate their demands? By raven or horse?"
- The High Sparrow: "By the holy text, The Seven Pointed Star."
- — The High Sparrow and Olenna Tyrell[src]
The Seven-Pointed Star is the main symbol of the Faith, from which the book takes its name.
The devout Princess Rhaena Targaryen reading The Seven-Pointed Star while imprisoned at the Maidenvault.
The Seven-Pointed Star[1] is the holy text of the Faith of the Seven.
Its title is a reference to the seven-pointed star used as a symbol of the Faith, which signifies the seven-in-one godhead. Just as the seven points are all part of the same star, the Seven are not actually seven separate gods, but a single deity that manifests to mankind through seven different aspects or facets.
History[]
House of the Dragon: Season 1[]
At the start of the Dance of the Dragons, Jace and Luke Velaryon swear on The Seven-Pointed Star that they will act as peaceful messengers rather than warriors.[2]
Game of Thrones: Season 4[]
Shireen mentions to Melisandre that she has read The Seven-Pointed Star. Melisandre, as a devout priestess in the religion of the Lord of Light, scoffs that it is filled with lies.[1]
Game of Thrones: Season 5[]
When Loras and Margaery Tyrell are imprisoned by the Faith Militant, their grandmother Olenna comes to the Great Sept of Baelor to demand that the so-called High Sparrow (the new High Septon) release them. He bluntly tells her that he serves the gods, and the gods demand justice. Olenna sarcastically asks how the gods communicate their will to him, by horse or messenger-raven, but the High Sparrow simply responds that it is through their holy text, The Seven-Pointed Star, and reminds her of the sections of the text prohibiting "buggery and perjury".[3]
Game of Thrones: Season 6[]
The page of The Seven-Pointed Star that Septa Unella reads from to Margaery Tyrell.
Septa Unella continues to grill Margaery during her captivity in the Great Sept by reading aloud passages from The Seven-Pointed Star.[4]
Margaery later mentions a story from The Book of the Stranger when speaking with the High Sparrow, relating how a person converted to the Seven after passing through a graveyard, citing the part where it is located.[5]
Excerpts[]
Do not presume to know the damned. The foulest murderer may repent and seek the Mother's mercy before the end. The honest septon may pray every night and still be found wanting.
The Seven Hells brim with the souls of saintly men. They scream in agony and their shame is so great. They do not feel the flames, for now they see if not for a single sin they concealed, they were saved.
The King is father to the realm, but he is not the Father. The King speaks with the voice of the King. The High Septon speaks with the voice of the Gods. When the Gods speak, the King must listen. What the Gods demand, the King must provide. How the Gods judge, the King must submit.
When necessary, the High Septon may convene a Holy Court to try crimes against the faith, and dispense the Father's justice. As long as he sits in the Father's seat, the High Septon's word is mandate, for the faith and all the faithfull [...]
In the books[]
King Baelor the Blessed holding a copy of The Seven-Pointed Star.
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, The Seven-Pointed Star is the holy text of the Faith of the Seven. Much like the Christian Bible, it is divided into several internal sections or "books", based on different aspects of the Faith. The only specific internal subdivision mentioned so far is the "Maiden's Book", also called the "Book of the Maiden" ("the Maiden" being one of the Seven). Presumably there are a total of seven of these gospel-like sections, one for each aspect of the godhead.
Among other contents, notable sections include narratives about how the Seven first appeared to the Andals and their king, Hugor of the Hill, thousands of years ago when they were still living in the hills of Andalos on the other side of the Narrow Sea.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Game of Thrones: Season 4, Episode 2: "The Lion and the Rose" (2014).
- ↑ House of the Dragon: Season 1, Episode 10: "The Black Queen" (2022).
- ↑ Game of Thrones: Season 5, Episode 7: "The Gift" (2015).
- ↑ Game of Thrones: Season 6, Episode 1: "The Red Woman" (2016).
- ↑ Game of Thrones: Season 6, Episode 4: "Book of the Stranger" (2016).
External links[]
| The Seven |
Crone · Father · Maiden · Mother · Smith · Stranger · Warrior |
| Clergy and orders |
Faith Militant · High Septon · Most Devout · Septa · Septon · Silent Sisters |
| Sects and offshoots | |
| Septs and other places of note |
Andalos · Grand Sept · Great Sept of Baelor · Sept of Remembrance · Starry Sept |
| Holy texts and documents |
The Seven-Pointed Star |
| Afterlives | |