# point to Borski *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 23 Mar 2001* > 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. --- ### Dan Parmenter *23 Mar 2001, 18:19* > From: "Robert Borski" > I doubt you'll find much support for the notion that Hierodule is a generic > term for all aliens--unlike, say, cacogen, or as you mention, extrasolarian. [...] > Famulimus trilled, "Hierodule is 'holy slave.'" (p. 36) > So clearly Wolfe is using "Hierodule" specifically to designate the > aliens who hail from Yesod, not Briah or the front pages of the > National Enquirer. Okay, point taken. I remembered the line about "holy slave" after I posted. I suppose the only legs that the Cumaean-as-Inhuma hypothesis has left to stand on would require that a) Severian was wrong (as he often is) about the Cumaean being a Hierodule or b) the Inhumi DO come from Yesod, which is certainly an interesting thought. Shellac *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---