changing the immutable gods

Chris · 04 Apr 2006, 19:11 · from 2006-April.txt.gz

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From: rasputin_ at hotmail.com (Chris)
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 19:11:56 +0000
Subject: (urth) changing the immutable gods
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Sorry to single you out, Marc, but you are making a move here that's all too 
common on this list. You have made an unnoticed shift from *speculation* 
that Pleistorus *might be* "Ahuramazda incognito" to simply assuming that he 
*is* such. This is particularly dangerous with Wolfe because he will often 
have characters drop suggestive ideas (or even seem to know things) that are 
based on their own misunderstanding of what's going on.

Marc said:
>Very interesting, considering Pleistorus is "ahura mazda incognito" (ie - 
>the great god of good).  If there is any importance to this statement, I 
>think it is that this God of Good is so changed by his human experiences 
>that he changes the very ethos of the world and eventually checks the pagan 
>nature of the other gods, gods which were previously given free reign, 
>triggering the Christian era.  And he does so by incarnating himself among 
>the Jewish population under Rome.

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