# Typhon and the Whorl *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 17 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 *17 Dec 2007, 20:56* > Whatever the original design, I think Typhon wanted the Whorl to return > to Earth after things calmed down after a few centuries to "recolonize" > using technical experts released from suspended animation to start fixing > things, millions of peons that worshipped him as a god to provide the labor > and armies of chems to reestablish order. Then they could either revive the > original Typhon or if he was lost Pas could download into a suitable body > and reestablish his empire and glory. > > Evidently something went wrong with his plan when he was deposed by his > children and the inhumani hijacked the ship and redirected it to Green/Blue. This is basically how I understand the Whorl. Typhon was hedging his bets, and using the Whorl as a resurrection scheme. He did intend to be downloaded into a human body at some point and the Silk embryo was his chosen body, hence Silk's great strength, charisma, and rapid healing powers. I'm not too sure that he intended a return to Earth however, perhaps he anticipated starting a new galactic empire from a suitable planet. --- ### Dan *23 Dec 2007, 03:02 · follows Ashley Crill* > At 06:53 AM 12/21/2007, Roy C. Lackey wrote: > I believe you meant Hierogrammates, not Hieros. The Hieros were the humans > who cruelly fashioned the Hierogrammates in another universe that collapsed. > The Hierogrammates were the only things that mankind had made that survived > that universe. Tzadkiel was a Hierogrammate. Yesod is where they reside. It > is outside the universe of Briah, which is where Urth is located. Yes. Sorry I was being lazy and abbreviating. I meant those who had FTL capability. > Pedro wrote: > The answer is right here in this list. Its one of the few interviews in > which memebers asked questions that Wolfe later answered: Wow, maybe that's why I didn't remember it. He never does that! And now I see why... > <<< Sat, 14 Jun 97 21:15:00 GMT[Posted from WHORL, the mailing list for Gene > Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun] > > 3. "What was Typhon's purpose in lanunching the Whorl and was > theBlue/Green system the intended destination?" Knowing Typhon as I do,he > probably had at least half a dozen purposes; but certainly one ofthe chief > must have been self-aggrandizement -- to return human kindto the stars > would be a very great thing indeed. Yes, the Blue-Greensystem was the > intended destination.>>>> > > > There it is, clear as water. Simple, straightforward and not very satisfying. ---