To go forward you must go back

POTENTIAL SPOILERS

Quaithe gives Daenerys the following prophecy:

Quaithe

Daenerys

“To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward you must go back, and to touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow.”

To move forward she has to go back to Vaes Dothrak

Dany can now move forward with the entire Dothraki
She has become the "Stallion Who Mounts The World"

Going back to Vaes Dothrak she will see the truth of the prophecy.  Basically she has only to determine where she needs to be and go the opposite direction.

Rand al’Thor asked the following question of the Aelfinn:

How can I win the Last Battle and survive?"

They answered him with the following:

The north and the east must be as one. The west and the south must be as one. The two must be as one. If you would live, you must die.

For some time now I have believed that the two books seem to be companions to each other.  In this case the ASOIAF prophecy came first.  But since TWOT series is completed and the two prophecies seem similar can the answers to the last part of Dany’s prophecy from Quaithe be found in TWOT?

In TWOT Rand seized the Dark One and light itself exploded from him.  So will the last part of the prophecy “to touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow” mean something similar?  The Dark One is referred to as the “Shadow”.  Rand forged a peace between all the warring factions to make them all one.  While they were engaging the forces of the Shadow he and the Dark One fought on a metaphysical level.  In ASOIAF Rand’s character is split between both Dany and Jon Snow.  The following took place in TWOT can you draw any conclusions from it?  

 

A representation of the Dark One breaking free

Jon Snow

“They took control of him. Callandor was flawed. Any man using it could be forced to link with women, to be placed in their control. A trap . . . and one he used on Moridin.

Moridin

“Link!” Rand commanded.

They fed it to him. Power.

Saidar from the women.

The True Power from Moridin.

Saidin from Rand.

Moridin’s channeling the True Power here threatened to destroy them all, but they buffered it with saidin and saidar; then directed all three at the Dark One.

Rand punched through the blackness there and created a conduit of light and darkness, turning the Dark Ones own essence upon him.”

“Rand felt the Dark One beyond, his immensity. Space, size, time . . . Rand understood how these things could be irrelevant now.

With a bellow—three Powers coursing through him, blood streaming down his side—the Dragon Reborn raised a hand of power and seized the Dark One through the Bore, like a man reaching through water to grab the prize at the rivers bottom.

The Bore

The Dark One tried to pull back, but Rand's claw was gloved by the True Power. The enemy could not taint saidin again. The Dark One tried to withdraw the True Power from Moridin, but the conduit flowed too freely, too powerfully to shut off now. Even for Shai’tan himself.

So it was that Rand used the Dark One’s own essence, channeled in its full strength. He held the Dark One tightly, like a dove in the grip of a hawk.”

“And light exploded from him.”

“The seals crumbled. The Dark One burst free.

A broken seal to the Dark One's prison

Rand held the Dark One tightly.

Filled with the Power, standing in a column of light, Rand pulled the Dark One into the Pattern. Only here was there time. Only here could the Shadow itself be killed.

The force in his hand, which was at once vast and yet tiny, trembled. Its screams were the sounds of planets grinding together.

A pitiful object. Suddenly, Rand felt as if he were holding not one of the primal forces of existence, but a squirming thing from the mud of the sheep pens.

YOU REALLY ARE NOTHING, Rand said, knowing the Dark Ones secrets completely. YOU WOULD NEVER HAVE GIVEN ME REST AS YOU PROMISED, FATHER OF LIES. YOU WOULD HAVE ENSLAVED ME AS YOU WOULD HAVE ENSLAVED THE OTHERS. YOU CANNOT GIVE OBLIVION. REST IS NOT YOURS. ONLY TORMENT.

Note: I believe that the sentence "You would have enslaved me as you would have enslaved the others" was reimagined in ASOIAF to portray the COTF as the Dark One, Jon Snow as Rand and "The Others" as the others.  

An Other

Kit Harrington gave an interview describing how Jon Snow saw "oblivion" or nothing.  Where Rand wanted oblivion it was a terrifying experience for Jon.

At first, I was worried that he’ll wake up and he’s the same, back to normal — then there’s no point in that death,. He needs to change. There’s a brilliant line when Melisandre asks: ‘What did you see?’ And he says: ‘Nothing, there was nothing at all.’ That cuts right to our deepest fear, that there’s nothing after death. And that’s the most important line in the whole season for me. Jon’s never been afraid of death, and that’s made him a strong and honorable person. He realizes something about his life now: He has to live it, because that’s all there is. He’s been over the line and there’s nothing there. And that changes him. It literally puts the fear of god into him. He’s seen oblivion and that’s got to change somebody in the most fundamental way there is. He doesn’t want to die ever again. But if he does, he doesn’t want to be brought back.

The Dark One trembled in his grip.”

“YOU HORRIBLE, PITIFUL MITE, Rand said.

Rand was dying. His lifeblood flowed from him, and beyond that, the amount of the Powers he held would soon burn him away.

He held the Dark One in his hand. He began to squeeze, then stopped.

He knew all secrets. He could see what the Dark One had done. And Light, Rand understood. Much of what the Dark One had shown him was lies.

But the vision Rand himself had created—the one without the Dark One—was truth. If he did as he wished, he would leave men no better than the Dark One himself.

What a fool I have been.”

“Rand yelled, thrusting the Dark One back through the pit from where it had come. Rand pushed his arms to the side, grabbing twin pillars of saidar and saidin with his mind, coated with the True Power drawn through Moridin, who knelt on the floor, eyes open, so much power coursing through him he couldn’t even move.

Rand hurled the Powers forward with his mind and braided them together. Saidin and saidar at once, the True Power surrounding them and forming a shield on the Bore.

He wove something majestic, a pattern of interlaced saidar and saidin in their pure forms. Not Fire, not Spirit, not Water, not Earth, not Air. Purity. Light itself. This didn’t repair, it didn’t patch, it forged anew.

With this new form of the Power, Rand pulled together the rent that had been made here long ago by foolish men.”

“He understood, finally, that the Dark One was not the enemy.

It never had been.”

Comments encouraged.  Love to hear the idea's of others.  Most believe that since I present my idea's as "fact like" I'm not open to change my viewpoints which as far from the truth.  I simply look at the information presented and go from there.  If you can shine a light on another way of thinking that opens the door to debate.