# Seeing the signs *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 16 Dec 2010* > 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. --- ### Andrew Mason *16 Dec 2010, 22:45* >> 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 Wynn *16 Dec 2010, 23:00 · in reply to Andrew Mason* > 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 ---