So did the flounder grant the fisherman's wish or not?
Contents - land, sea, flounder, fisherman and wife, a cottage, castle, king's castle, Emperor's castle, Pope's residence, sun and moon.
Flounder at the very bottom of the sea/unconscious - the deepest part.
Putting aside some intersting echoes of the tarot, it seems to show the wife wishing herself higher and higher up the rungs of the heirarchy of power and authority.
The question is, did the flounder punish the wife's audacity by taking away all she had and not granting the wish, or did he grant her wish and make her like God?
Which would mean we are to to see a similarity between God's essential nature and the wife of a humble fisherman living in a hovel. Either in having nothing or in having all taken away. Kind of like the Pope is supposed to be the servant of servants? Like the guy right at the top of the pile actually serves everyone else?
Or maybe that all beings contain a spark of the Divine, or are manifestations of Buddha-nature.?
In which case the brothers Grimm would be have been going through a Zen Buddhist or Sufi phase, and the story/koan would end, "..and thus the fisherman's wife became enlightened."
Personally, I think the story should have ended with -
Quote:
“Well, what does she want, then?” said the Flounder. “Alas,” said he, “she wants to be like unto God.” “Go to her, and you will find her God already."
And the fisherman returned home and found her nailed to a tree.
BTW, I wonder if this was the flounder?
http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/07-02-2007/87167-alien_monster-0
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