Abaia and the undines

Jeff Wilson · 10 Dec 2008, 05:04 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:04:21 -0600
Subject: (urth) Abaia and the undines
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David Stockhoff wrote:
> And to pick up another thread, I think it's helpful to view TBotNS's
> cosmology from a faerie or Greek perspective. Severian need not be
> related to the undines, but that's one way of explaining why he does
> indeed seem to have a water-sprite connection.

That was my thought at first, but Severian goes on to survive watery 
peril without a companion undine at hand.

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