What's So Great About Ushas

Paul B · 11 Jul 2008, 20:10 · from 2008-July.txt.gz

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From: pb.stuff at gmail.com (Paul B)
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:10:55 -0400
Subject: (urth) What's So Great About Ushas
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On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:

> Paul B wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com <mailto:
>> jwilson at io.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    I move that we adopt my term "Yesodis" to mean the current and
>>    former inhabitants of Yesod during the period of the Book and their
>>    non-human servants, including the Hierodules, Hierogrammates, and
>>    Hieros. It's certainly easier to spell and shorter.
>>
>>
>> This term isn't terribly good because it confounds the human Hieros with
>> the alien Hierogrammates, as well as confounding the present with the past.
>>
>
> By confounding do you perhaps mean "compounding" or "conflating"? That's
> what "Yesodis" is intended to do, to refer to all of these higher beings as
> a group, and this is useful because they seem to share a cause in their
> existence. It can also mean the relevant subset of them in context, the way
> "Axis Forces" means the Germany, Japan, etc in WWII, but not necessarily all
> of them every time.
>

I still stand by "confounding", simply because the humans aren't the aliens,
and then isn't now. What is the common purpose of "the Yesodis" - how are
they alike, and who are they different from?  Organizations of nomenclature
like "Axis" have obvious commonalities and differences as regards others.
If both humans and aliens are "Yesodis" then and now, who isn't one?  If you
like, you could call the humans (Hieros) Side A, and the aliens
(Hierogrammates, Hierodules) Side B.  That seems clearer.

He draws on its power numerous times, and I don't think "draw" is purely
> metaphorical. And if he's not there at the end to bring the New Sun for
> Ushas, why is he there at all?
>
>
To write the BotNS, of course :-)  His role can be purely symbolic, and
still terribly important to Side B (har) plans.


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