Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-67.185.246.129-20160318045523/@comment-107.12.213.133-20170121235124

Here's my list of hypotheses: 1) I thought at first, because of the Crusader/Grimm connection, that it might be part of the cross of Christ. That would tie in to the "royal" connection, if one subscribes to certain conspiracy theories, a la the DaVinci Code stuff.  But it doesn't fit into the general mythology of the show.

2) So there are two other biblical possibilities that involve a lot of animals: 2a) Noah's Ark) the ancestors of every terrestial animal genus and species were on Noah's Ark---this would tie in to the entire Vessen thing, and might provide an origin story: perhaps the stick, or what it was attached to, generated an energy that "created" the Vessen. 2b) The Tree of Life) given that the writers of the show are Jewish, this seems the most likely thing to me, and something that could very well have been on Noah's Ark, or part of it. The enormous power of such a thing would do all that we've seen--though the offensive capabilities defy explanation, and the Garden of Eden was the only other time in history and/or mythology that all the animals were gathered together with humans.