Cumaean???

Matthew King · 14 Dec 2007, 21:44 · from 2007-December.txt.gz

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From: automatthew at gmail.com (Matthew King)
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:44:29 -0600
Subject: (urth) Cumaean???
In-Reply-To: <1197651438.5684.25.camel@todd-desktop>
References: <4E82554550FE5149AD4B30A4FEA22492BFB7C4 at xchange.briercrest.ca>
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On Dec 14, 2007, at 10:57 AM, Todd wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 09:46 -0600, Eric Ortlund wrote:
>> 3) When Merryn is telling Severian that all time exists, the Cumaean
>> tells them that, although Apu Punchau (=New Sun, right?) lived ages
>> before her, there is a "mind" which existed in his time and which  
>> still
>> exists . . . on the Red Star called the Fish's Mouth.  What the  
>> heck is
>> going on here?  Which star is this, and which mind?  Is this  
>> referring
>> to Yesod?
>
> The star is likely Fomalhaut,  or "mouth of the whale" is a bright  
> white
> star in the constellation of Pisces.

Reminiscent of the "sign of the belly of the whale" line in On Blue's  
Waters, which is itself a reference to the "sign of Jonah" line in  
Matthew 12.

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