# negating the diabolical eucharist *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 25 Feb 2002* > 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. --- ### maa32 *25 Feb 2002, 18:43* I was just going to clarify a previous post, and I will stick to the New Sun books for this. I was positing that The Green Man and his continued existence represents "saved humanity"; In other words, since his sustenance is received primarily from the sun, he partakes of the symbolic substance of Severian for noursihment. This overturns the diabolical eucharist by which Severian ascended the throne to temporal power. His spiritual body (ie- the white hole / new sun) feeds the saved people of the future. Thus, Green Men live through a type of eucharist; The New Sun becomes the bread of life. Those who cannot eat of that substance will certainly not survive as well as the green man, since their food supplies and available land have been depleted by the flood. What do you think of this interpretation of the green man? It is a type of eucharist that is spiritual and does not smack of necrophagia. Marc Aramini ---