What's So Great About Ushas?

Mo Holkar / UKG · 06 Jun 2008, 07:54 · from 2008-June.txt.gz

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From: lists at ukg.co.uk (Mo Holkar / UKG)
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:54:39 +0100
Subject: (urth) What's So Great About Ushas?
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At 05:11 06/06/2008, b sharp wrote:
>Severian, in his less than conscious creation of Ushas but inability 
>to participate in humanity's future, genetically, is a much better 
>candidate as a Moses figure.  Also, like Moses, Severian seems to be 
>a conduit for God's power without really understanding, himself, how it works.

Interesting suggestion! Moses was also an abandoned infant, a killer, 
and (in Jewish tradition) highly sexually active.

I think this fits a lot better than the Father-Inire-as-Moses suggestion.

Mo

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