# Holy Moses! *The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 28 Jun 1997* > 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. --- ### Kieran Mullen *28 Jun 1997, 16:29* > From: Alice Turner > Subject: Go Down, Moses > Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 16:32:56 -0400 > > At 12:26 PM 6/27/97 -0700, you wrote: >> To me Silk has more of a Mosaic flavor to his character than Christic. >> He leads his people out of bondage to a promised planet. However, he >> does not get to walk in the Land himself. I mean, "Exodus"? The burning >> bush? >> >> Kieran Mullen > What it the Moses role was played by Quetzal? He is never really seen as a leader of the people. His image is primarily serpentine, and therefore devilish in this mythology (IMO). I don't think that Moses led the Hebrews through the desert so they could get eaten in the promised land :-). I also don't mean to press the point to strongly. Symbolism is not allegory. We don't have a Mr. Goodworks and a Ms. Gossip running around. It also occurs to me that Wolfe's soteriology (story of being saved) doesn't have to rigorously following the Biblical paradigms. Can anyone think of sf novels that follow other spiritual traditions off planet? I think it's in Simmons _Hyperion_, where he replays the story of Abraham and Isaac. (There are lots of such novels that involve the Christian tradition). By "follow" I don't mean simply that there are Moslems or Buddhists on another planet. I mean novels that use their cosmology on an sf scale. Kieran Mullen --- ### m.driussi *30 Jun 1997, 01:16 · follows Kieran Mullen* Reply: Item #6730944 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Re: non-Christian Religion in SF. Well, before I look at the encycopedia, DUNE obviously. And Zelazny stuff, like LORD OF LIGHT (Hindu) and CREATURES OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS (ancient Egyptian). And a trilogy based upon the (modern synthetic) Scandinavian (Finnish?) epic poem that starts with a "K"(?). Hmm. Encyclopedia not much help at the moment. The "Religion" section is mainly re: Christian. I'm not looking hard enough. =mantis= ---