"Five" in In Glory Like Their Star The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 04 Oct 2001 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/2828 Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. ============================================================================== James Jordan — 04 Oct 2001, 13:25 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------