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I’m borrowing this cap from larinah’s further musings on 2001 and The Hunter Games because the First Blade seems to have a glyph carved in it… that resembles a river…
I honestly sort of thought Metatron was just tossing out something that sounded good, a “What do I have in my pocket?” kinda thing… But river imagery really is linked to the Blade….

Huh.  There’s a curvy flowing-water looking symbol, and underneath and perpendicular to that there’s something that looks sort of like the zodiac symbol for Aquarius.  Water indeed.

That’s actually why I have that screencap!!  I’ve posted about that twice, but I didn’t get many takers for discussion, so I’m so happy you brought this back up!  I totally think that little symbol means something, because why else bother to have it on there?

Agh, I totally forgot that you posted that.  Though apparently I liked it at the time!  I need an external hard drive for my brain, I swear.

I feel like we needed Metatron saying “The river ends at the source” to give us more of a hint as to what this might all be pointing to.  (I did, I guess, anyway.)

I never saw posts about the symbol before (though I will go read them now) so it must be synchronicity— how cool! I do not like looking at this blade, it makes me uneasy so I’d never noticed before.
My issue with this whole riddle (now that I’m convinced it is one) is that Dean paraphrases it and either changes/limits the meaning, or that was The Writers stepping in to clarify that they do mean the river ends at its own source. As it is phrased when Metto says it, it could be open ended— the river will end at the source of what? The glyph is linear. It is not a river flowing back onto itself but forward towards the business end of the blade.
Of course I keep thinking about the huge New Madrid earthquake that actually caused the Mississippi to flow backwards….
Ok going to stop until I read the other posts…

Edit: reading. head exploding. totally did not mean to walk on other people’s work, just missed all that I guess… I knew seeing Dean in a prayer pose in front of that telescope that something astro____ was going on….

And when Metatron said it, he started with “Behold”, which makes it sound far more official Word of God language to me. (When I was looking to see if that was an actual Bible quote, I found the very same instance of a river running backwards that you mention. Synchronicity/serendipity indeed!)

So this thing about a river flowing backwards. Now, this is a stretch, but Dean’s story runs a little backwards to Cain’s. Instead of killing his brother, he made a deal to keep him alive. Abel died and is in paradise, Sam was resurrected from hell. Cain made a deal with Lucifer, Sam and Dean tricked him. Didn’t Cain ask Dean to come back and use the blade on him right before he pink-lighted all those demons?….No clue where I’m going with this, just caught up in the difference between an inversion and a cycle I guess…

I don’t know, but since both deathswaywardson and venusdebotticelli have mentioned that Dean is an Aquarius, I’m going to add in here that I’ve had a silly little headcanon about the it being the dawning of the Age of Aquarius rolling around in my brain since Metatron showed up.  (I can’t help it, I was born in the 60s :P)

“Traditionally, Aquarius is associated with electricity, computers, flight, democracy, freedom, humanitarianism, Idealism, modernization, astrology, nervous disorders, rebellion, nonconformity, philanthropy, veracity, perseverance, humanity, and irresolution.

Many astrologers consider the appearance of many of these Aquarian developments over the last few centuries indicative of the proximity of the Aquarian age. However, there is no agreement on the relationship of these recent Aquarian developments and the Age of Aquarius.”

Now I don’t have any leanings or interest in astrology at all in real life, but don’t some of those things above remind you of what’s been brought up in the show recently?  Computers, freedom, humanitarianism, idealism, modernization, astrology, rebellion, nonconformity, perseverance, veracity, and humanity in particular?

ETA:  see also @f-yeahfutbol’s addition here.