Seeing the signs

Andrew Mason16 Dec 2010, 22:45

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Jeff Wilson wrote: Given my current exploration of the role of Dionysus and Great God Pan in the Sun series I was less interested in the PROPHET's crudely carved staff and more interested in the goatskin he was wearing (heh). Another Inire-Faunus-Inuus reference? Awfully pagan at any rate, which might be a bit odd from a straight Judeo-Christian interpretation for a prophet in a play called Eschatology and Genesis

This doesn't strike me as particularly pagan - Moses leading the tribes through the desert could have looked much the same, and he did sympathetic magic like nailing an effigy snake to a pole to ward off death by snake venom.

'They went about in sheepskins and goatskins' (Hebrews 11.37). I suspect this is a reference to something specific in the Old Testament, but I'm not sure what.

James Wynn16 Dec 2010, 23:00

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Andrew Mason- 'They went about in sheepskins and goatskins' (Hebrews 11.37). I suspect this is a reference to something specific in the Old Testament, but I'm not sure what.

Apparently it refers to People of Faith who fled towns for unpopulated areas during persecution. u+16b0

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