So I've been thinking again about the children's apparent forgetfulness of the lamp-post after spending years as rulers of Narnia. Perhaps there are a couple of ways to understand this. The easier way is to say the children lost touch with their previous lives. For anyone who has moved, especially as a child, it's sometimes hard to remember how things were after many years in the new place. Considering the Pevensie's move consisted of changing universes, how much more so their previous lives would be little more than a blur. The lamp-post was part of that life. True it was stationed in Narnia, but it's essence, not mention electricity, was our worldly. Hence it was forgotten by the Pevensie children.
Perhaps another approach is to note the following. In our last post we compared the lamp-post to the burning bush seen by Moses on Mt. Sinai. Where is Mt. Sinai? Well, it doesn't seem that anyone really knows. That's a bit strange for such an important place - a place where God, and the Heavens themselves, came down and touch our world. That it happened we know. The cosmic significance of the occurrence is undeniable, but where it is? Irrelevant. The magnitude of what happened changed the entire world so the location of the epicenter doesn't matter.
So too with the lamp-post. The lamp-post started a chain of events which would rewrite Narnia and its world. The echoes of Lucy entering Narnia continued for hundreds of years and refocused the perspective of all nations. What difference does it make exactly where Lucy was first seen? Hence, it was forgotten.
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