User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-26975268-20130407222910/@comment-188432-20130412025858

I think SOTO is closer to the truth here than Anoted, but the confusion is understandable.

Let's start at the beginning of the Festival proceedings. The Doctor reads from a programme.
 * DOCTOR: They're singing to the Mummy in the Temple. They call it the Old God. Sometimes Grandfather.

And that's what drives the Doctor and Clara's understanding from then on. They think that the Mummy is the Old God/Grandfather. So they're used to talking about the Mummy with those words.

Fast forward to the end-ish of the story. The Mummy's dispatched. So now this happens:


 * DOCTOR: I thought the Old God was Grandfather. But he wasn't.  It was just the Grandfather's alarm clock.

Okay, so that means the Mummy is not Grandfather. The Mummy is just the Grandfather's alarm clock. So is the Mummy the Old God? Why does the Doctor seem to suggest that the two are separate entities after the script establishes they are just different names for the same entity? Well, Clara comes to the rescue and does what all companions should do. She asks the questions the audience would.


 * CLARA: Sorry, a bit lost. Who's the Old God? Is there an Old God?
 * DOCTOR: Unfortunately yes. (points to Akhaten)

So AKhaten is both the Old God and Grandfather. And the Mummy is just the Mummy. Or the alarm clock.