Aside on Christ figures in TBotNS

David Stockhoff · 11 Dec 2008, 19:02 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:02:21 -0500
Subject: (urth) Aside on Christ figures in TBotNS
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I had forgotten that Tzadkiel's son fought and died in the judicial 
combat that confirmed Severian's success as Epitome.

If Tzadkiel is the Demiurge, and the Demiurge is God, then that makes 
the son, well, his Son. Not sacrificed, but exposed to the risk of 
death, because Tzadkiel thought it wrong to judge Urth without putting 
something of his own on the block.

Again, I am reminded of the theory that TBotNS presents parodies of the 
true religion, and the phrase in Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius that Wolfe 
has pointed at as an inspiration for TBotNS: "an atropious or banal 
reality."

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