lots of stuff

Thomas Bitterman · 13 Jul 2010, 14:12 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: tom at bitterman.net (Thomas Bitterman)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:12:05 -0400
Subject: (urth) lots of stuff
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On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 4:50 PM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
>> That may have been a bit hasty, but the even though the fettered Fenrir
>> was tied to Gyoll, Inire is awfully mobile about his duty station and
>> commands means of egress and ingress - his position is more like
>> Heimdall guarding Bifrost and standing sentry over doings in distant
>> places on other worlds. It doesn't hurt that Heimdal is also the
>> "Father" of the classes of men, in disguise as another person yet
>>
>
> Just when I'm ready to leave the Norse association behind, you pull me back
> in. You're right about Heimdall because he's the Norse Janus. The link
> between Janus, Pan, and Osirus is Priapus who was variously associated with
> all of them. Heimdall, as the father of humanity, fits right in there. That
> leaves us here with reasonable mythological associations for Typhon,
> Severian, and Inire.
>
> The only frustrating thing is that the monster Typhon doesn't fit for any
> this. Fenrir doesn't fit for any of this either except in one way. He is an
> important father too...he's the father of the race of wolves. And, yeah, his
> rock is Gyoll which is also a mythical river.
>

Fenrir as father of "Wolfe"s is good enough for me.
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