What's So Great About Ushas?

Roy C. Lackey · 06 Jun 2008, 18:58 · from 2008-June.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 13:58:12 -0500
Subject: (urth) What's So Great About Ushas?
Message-ID: <000a01c8c807$48025da0$16cd4a0c at rclackey.stic.net>

Mo Holkar quoted and wrote:
>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.

Severian, unlike Moses, did get to the Promised Land, which rather spoils
the analogy. Whether he waded into the gene pool there or not is
undetermined, I think.

-Roy

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