# Digest whorl.v007.n013 *The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 14 Aug 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 *14 Aug 1997, 13:24* > Then I drift from book to book and notice that in TBOTNS it is Agia > who is associated with peacocks with her "pavonine" brochade dress. > Which is interesting--Agia as an avenging Hera, Dorcas as Io (not to > mention the Soldier series), and Severian as Zeus the amorous. I've > often wondered about the animal fable layer to TBOTNS, especially > when some characters have clear animal names: Dorcas means gazelle, > Hildegrin is called the Badger, Talos has the face of a stuffed fox, > and so on. So I watch for other animal aspects to show up. I think you are off the mark with the Dorcas allusion. Dorcas was the name of a woman brought back from the dead (by Peter, I think) in the New Testament. (I don't have my RSV here, but it something like her name was Dorcas, but she was also called Tabitha). Kieran Mullen --- ### Alice Turner *15 Aug 1997, 06:58 · follows Kieran Mullen* mantis, why do you think the name of the nameless little girl in the Antechamber is like that of a starship crew member's job title? I wonder if we'll ever run into her again. -alga- ---