Abaia and the undines

Matthew Keeley · 11 Dec 2008, 18:35 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com (Matthew Keeley)
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:35:46 -0500
Subject: (urth) Abaia and the undines
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On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Matthew Malthouse
<matthew at calmeilles.co.uk> wrote:
> At 15:14 10/12/2008, you wrote:
>>
>> Otherwise, I have not found any correspondence of these names with one
>> another or any single mythos in any way, except that the names Erebus and
>> Arioch may have Semitic roots, and that Erebus and Scylla are Homeric.
>
>
> Arioch is indeed Hebrew meaning fierce lion and as a  demon appeared in
> works as diverse (or similar?) as Paradise Lost and Morcock's Elric et al.

I know Moorcock published at least one of Wolfe's stories, so perhaps
he was making a Paradise Lost reference AND homaging Moorcock?

The problem there is that Moorcock and Wolfe are pretty much
completely opposed philosophically and Moorcock is probably not the
first writer Wolfe would "call out".

Arioch in Moorcock's books is one of the major gods of Chaos, which
seems relevant.

-Matt

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