Seeing the signs
The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 16 Dec 2010
https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/5836

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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.

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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

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