# his own father *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 15 Dec 2007* > 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. --- ### Ashley Crill *15 Dec 2007, 00:51* >> 2) Is the Cumaean the heavenly same being that Sev sleeps with in the> fifth volume, while on Yesod? (By the way, has it come up in the> discussions that Yesod means "foundation" in Hebrew?) I seem to> remember from my last reading of Urth of the NS that Severian implies> that he fathers himself in that encounter. During that encounter, Severian gave birth to the New Sun, which was himself. Hopefully that clears it up. =) --- ### Jeff Wilson *15 Dec 2007, 09:32 · in reply to Ashley Crill* >>> Ashley Crill wrote: >>> 2) Is the Cumaean the heavenly same being that Sev sleeps with in the> fifth volume, while on Yesod? (By the way, has it come up in the> discussions that Yesod means "foundation" in Hebrew?) I seem to> remember from my last reading of Urth of the NS that Severian implies> that he fathers himself in that encounter. > During that encounter, Severian gave birth to the New Sun, which was himself. Hopefully that clears it up. =) Ouch! I presume he glossed over the necessary C-section? ``` Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com < http://www.io.com/~jwilson > ``` ---