"Five" in In Glory Like Their Star
The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 04 Oct 2001
https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/2828
I should have remembered this from linguistics, but only now at this late date recollected it: The Indo-European word "pan" means "all" and also "five." (Note "pentegram" "pentagon" etc., and of course "pas, pan"). The reference is to the totality of time.
Nutria
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