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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/906",
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  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 906,
    "subject": "Mars",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-07-02T22:24:27+00:00",
    "last": "1998-07-02T22:24:27+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0015-0092@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "mary whalen",
        "address": "marewhalen at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-07-02T22:24:27+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Mars",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "This is Sean Whalen (prion).\n\nIn Tracking Song, the planet apparently relates to Mars, as many\npeople have said (such as it's like the old pulp comics that always\nhappen on Mars).  Does it also symbolize the state of war between the\nanimal tribes?  What does the planet Mars symbolize to American Indians?\n\nIn The Book of the New Sun, what we call Mars is called Verthandi (the\nNorn of the present).  In the Tale of the Boy Called Frog, the god\nMars in the Story is called Spring Wind, whose horoscope showed him to\nbe unbeatable in battle.  His sons, Frog and Fish, correspond to\n(among others) Romulus and Remus.  Frog gets adopted by wolves and\nescapes a smilodon.  The story also features Squanto (an American\nIndian), who teaches Frog.  I know this whole story is supposed to be\nlike The Jungle Book, but it seems a lot like Tracking Song, too. \nDoes anyone see any other parallels between these two?  Well, a Frog\njumps, like Cutthroat did (it couldn't be, could it?).  I'm not sure.\n\nprion"
        }
      ]
    }
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