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  "thread": {
    "id": 111,
    "subject": "Devils -> Gods; No Theophany Switch?",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1997-02-20T09:22:20+00:00",
    "last": "1997-02-20T09:22:20+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0003-0161@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David_Lebling",
        "address": "david_lebling at avid.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-02-20T09:22:20+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Devils -> Gods; No Theophany Switch?",
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          "text": "A key to the uncharacteristically benevolent nature of Pas and some of\nthe other gods is in Kypris's explanation of possession.  I can't quote\nit exactly, but she says that after being possessed there's a bit of\nKypris in Chenille, and that if that bit were brought back to Kypris\nthere would be a bit of Chenille in Kypris.  (This is paraphrased, as\nI'm typing this without the books handy).\n\nAfter three hundred years of this sort of thing, perhaps the gods have\nbecome humanized.  This ties in well with the remarks from the Brown\nBook in _New Sun_ about the nature of rulership.  The commons mold their\ngods into something like themselves but still superior to themselves. Of\ncourse this doesn't explain Echidna or Sphigx; bad to the bone, I guess.\n\nI'm intrigued by alga's reference to the \"technicians who shut down the\ntheophanies.\"  I don't think that's what happened.  I think what\nhappened is that Q forbade human sacrifice, which greatly reduced the\nlikelihood of a sacrifice causing a theophany.  Patera Jerboa, who was\napparently the last person in Viron to have a theophany, had obviously\nsacrificed a child to achieve it: read the passage where they talk about\nsacrificing monkeys in _Exodus_.  Remora is about to say so explicitly,\nin his usual elliptical way, when he is interrupted.\n\n     -vizcacha\n\n     (aka Dave Lebling)\n     (david_lebling at avid.com)\n\nps: The \"ultan\" address is a great idea.\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
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