Odium and Lucifer

[Ripheus23]

One thing that struck me during the OB endgame was 

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Odium trying to get Dalinar to attribute his guilt to Odium.

This is highly reminiscent of Lucifer in LDS theology, whose goal was to have all agency given to him for the sake of the plan of salvation. So this got me to wondering: what if the 16 were Cosmere-analogues of prominent members of the premortal council in the LDS theory of history?

For that, we have:

Elohim [the proponent of the plan], Christ [executor of the plan], the Holy Ghost [somewhat mysterious role], the Heavenly Mother [even more mysterious?]

Lucifer [self-proposed alternate to Christ]

Adam and Eve

Mary

Of course Abraham, Melchizedek, Aaron, Peter, John the Baptist, and Joseph Smith's spirit-children forms might have been prominent, too. So we have almost 16 people in play. Now, the demiurgic aspect of the LDS Son might subtract him from this picture and square him more with Adonalsium, ditto for Elohim [the Father] (as possibly like "the God Beyond"). I propose here that Hoid is like the Holy Spirit.

Moreover, I don't want to say that Adonalsium had a plan of salvation in mind like that of Elohim in the LDS system [that is, such a plan as involved where people go when they die, and their eventual resurrection and exaltation---or damnation]. Rather, I want to explore what I will call semiotic Realmatic theory:

[Axiom of Realmatics] Physical information is like the pieces of words [letters] and individual words themselves.

Cognitive information is like those pieces being put together into orderly sentences.

Spiritual information is like arranging those sentences into an elaborate composition, with themes and typographical features and so on [think Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves: the way the words and sentences are ordered is another level over that of the words and sentences, another semiotic level that is, with a "spiritual" dimension to it].

So the 16 Shattered Adonalsium insofar as they took up 16 spiritual roles, that is, become participants in 16 narrative-level concepts vis-a-vis the Cosmere. They add a "story" to the Cosmere per se. Hoid is an outlier in the process and "began [his] life...  as words on a page" in the sense that he is involved with the narrative level of the Cosmere as well.

Now, I also want to analyze the fact that "The Dark One" was at one point supposed to be a Cosmere story. Let's suppose, then, that Adonalsium wanted to "save the universe" somehow. He gave a group of people the chance to become the Saviors. Odium wanted to be the only Savior and has hereby become the anti-Savior, instead. Hoid, in his humility, chose to serve Adonalsium in a different way. But the narrative-level order that all these exchanges are taking place on, is that of some kind of salvation-plan.