Oreb possessed? The Urth list — 4 messages, 3 voices, 13 Sep 2013 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/6436 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. ============================================================================== Larry Miller — 13 Sep 2013, 07:24 I have been rereading Book of the Long Sun, and was struck with the notion that maybe Oreb was possessed from the moment of his apparent death during the failed sacrifice (the sacrificial altar was in front of the Sacred Window). The bird seen by Silk fluttering out the second story window prior to the appearance of Pike was Oreb, able to do so despite his injured wing because of the possession. this would also explain Orebs denial- he don't remember because he wasn't in control at the time. I don't know if this has ever been brought up before. Any thoughts? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Marc Aramini — 13 Sep 2013, 19:38 in reply to Larry Miller I have often wondered about the moment of possession by Oreb, but that glimpse of "Pike" in his calotte with Oreb floating down always seemed to me similar to Silk and Oreb showing up in the old woman's story in In Green's Jungles - those two "guys" headed backwards in time, Silk much older. There is a curious scene in the final book where they make a big deal about whether Silk was wearing a blue or black tunic, and I think there is something funny going on time wise there as well. He very well could have been possessed way back then - he definitely was by the time of the story "the Night Chough", but for how long? will pay attention to it when I re-read the sun cycle, some day not too far away. I have been rereading Book of the Long Sun, and was struck with the notion that maybe Oreb was possessed from the moment of his apparent death during the failed sacrifice (the sacrificial altar was in front of the Sacred Window). The bird seen by Silk fluttering out the second story window prior to the appearance of Pike was Oreb, able to do so despite his injured wing because of the possession. this would also explain Orebs denial- he don't remember because he wasn't in control at the time. I don't know if this has ever been brought up before. Any thoughts? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ entonio at gmail.com — 13 Sep 2013, 19:54 in reply to Marc Aramini I suppose possession may have started at any time, but I'd be sad if we came to the conclusion that a lot of Oreb wasn't Oreb. I like Oreb. No dia 13/09/2013, ?s 20:38, Marc Aramini escreveu: > I have often wondered about the moment of possession by Oreb, but that glimpse of "Pike" in his calotte with Oreb floating down always seemed to me similar to Silk and Oreb showing up in the old woman's story in In Green's Jungles - those two "guys" headed backwards in time, Silk much older. There is a curious scene in the final book where they make a big deal about whether Silk was wearing a blue or black tunic, and I think there is something funny going on time wise there as well. He very well could have been possessed way back then - he definitely was by the time of the story "the Night Chough", but for how long? will pay attention to it when I re-read the sun cycle, some day not too far away. > From: Larry Miller > To: Urth Mailing List > Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 12:24 AM > Subject: (urth) Oreb possessed? > > I have been rereading Book of the Long Sun, and was struck with the notion that maybe Oreb was possessed from the moment of his apparent death during the failed sacrifice (the sacrificial altar was in front of the Sacred Window). The bird seen by Silk fluttering out the second story window prior to the appearance of Pike was Oreb, able to do so despite his injured wing because of the possession. this would also explain Orebs denial- he don't remember because he wasn't in control at the time. I don't know if this has ever been brought up before. Any thoughts? > > _______________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Larry Miller — 14 Sep 2013, 00:15 in reply to entonio at gmail.com I can agree with you that something is "funny time wise" here, but Im beginning to think that while Pikes appearance maybe had to do with some temporal/astral travel, Oreb is another matter entirely. Pike is seen several minutes and a few pages after Oreb. Maybe Oreb and Pike aren't so connected after all. > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 3:54 PM, wrote: > I suppose possession may have started at any time, but I'd be sad if we > came to the conclusion that a lot of Oreb wasn't Oreb. I like Oreb. > > No dia 13/09/2013, ?s 20:38, Marc Aramini > escreveu: > > I have often wondered about the moment of possession by Oreb, but > that glimpse of "Pike" in his calotte with Oreb floating down always seemed > to me similar to Silk and Oreb showing up in the old woman's story in In > Green's Jungles - those two "guys" headed backwards in time, Silk much > older. There is a curious scene in the final book where they make a big > deal about whether Silk was wearing a blue or black tunic, and I think > there is something funny going on time wise there as well. He very well > could have been possessed way back then - he definitely was by the time of > the story "the Night Chough", but for how long? will pay attention to it > when I re-read the sun cycle, some day not too far away. > *From:* Larry Miller > *To:* Urth Mailing List > *Sent:* Friday, September 13, 2013 12:24 AM > *Subject:* (urth) Oreb possessed? > > I have been rereading Book of the Long Sun, and was struck with the > notion that maybe Oreb was possessed from the moment of his apparent death > during the failed sacrifice (the sacrificial altar was in front of the > Sacred Window). The bird seen by Silk fluttering out the second story > window prior to the appearance of Pike was Oreb, able to do so despite his > injured wing because of the possession. this would also explain Orebs > denial- he don't remember because he wasn't in control at the time. I don't > know if this has ever been brought up before. Any thoughts? > > _______________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------