What's So Great About Ushas

Jeff Wilson · 19 Jul 2008, 10:58 · from 2008-July.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:58:19 -0500
Subject: (urth) What's So Great About Ushas
In-Reply-To: <9352.72.171.0.141.1216438120.squirrel at brunians.org>
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brunians at brunians.org wrote:
> 
> Also, Hierogrammate means something like 'Holy Word-carrier' which is
> pretty close to the meaning of angel, which is (i believe) messenger....

angelos is Greek for messenger, but Hierogrammate was used in the 1600s 
to mean holy scribe - related, but not the same. It does however match 
someone who records the Increate's rescripts.  If Omar Khayyam's most 
famous metaphor is in play then the holy scribes are also the 
controllers of destiny, or and those who record recripts are the ones 
who *change* destinies - all very much the sort of things going on in 
the Book + Urth.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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