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  "thread": {
    "id": 1081,
    "subject": "Hierodule fieldguide",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-09-02T22:16:00+00:00",
    "last": "1998-09-02T22:16:00+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0018-0087@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-09-02T22:16:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Hierodule fieldguide",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Yes, yes, we have been over this before.  But still, who knows--maybe\nwe'll figure something out?\n\nThe hierodules are creatures of Briah who are agents/tools of\nHierogrammates in Yesod.  The different types of hierodules in the\nUrth Cycle:\n\nKelpies--B&F are analogous to kelpies (re: Severian's reaction to\ntheir stateroom onboard the Tzadkiel).  They are tall.  Ossipago is\nan automaton, shorter in stature than they are.  Water/horse symbols.\nMischief, if not fatal (death by drowning).\n\nMother Reptile Hundred Eyes--the Cumaean.  Symbol of Earth,\nseer/pythoness.\n\n???--Father Inire.  He's a hunched little guy, a Daedalus or\nHephaestus or Toth, and since Toth is the most ancient I tend to\nthink of Inire as being something like Toth's totem, the ibis, a bent\nneck little bird hobbling around, finding treasures in the muck. (Of\ncourse, he's also Lewdis Carnal, Victorian child pornographer,\nhunched over his primitive camera obscena. <g>)\n\nThere are more Hierodules onboard the time saucer.  Dr. Talos wants\nthem to come out and blast/scare the natives.  Severian sees most of\nthem as mermen, but sees one and thinks it squirrel-like in its climbing\naround.\n\nHere's a tidbit--\n\nBarbatus: \"Baldanders always comes to see us off\" (III, ch. 34).\nThis makes it seem like OB&F have indeed skipped back sixty years\nor so (I'm guessing that the villagers of Murene built the castle for\nlittle Baldanders circa 50 years pre-Severian's Reign) and then\nblipped forward from there, visiting Baldanders from time to time.\nAs this is their last visit with him, they are presumed to be about\nto skip back to some period prior to their last starting point.\n\n=mantis="
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