Wolfe's Puzzles

Jack Smith · 14 Jul 2010, 20:56 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: jack.smith.1946 at gmail.com (Jack Smith)
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:56:13 -0400
Subject: (urth) Wolfe's Puzzles
In-Reply-To: <4C3DDB75.9050802 at gmail.com>
References: <SNT123-W52AE66C3C8EA2DAECC1441CFB60 at phx.gbl>
	<4C380EB0.1000303 at gmail.com> <4C3BBE72.4020906 at verizon.net>
	<4C3DDB75.9050802 at gmail.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTikdCBvoQ64Ic3KqttxRfMfLoa2qLQxOvx9A9qVz at mail.gmail.com>

Pan means "all",  as in pandemic.  Scylla says that her daddy was "to be the
god of everything--that's what his name meant."  (LotLS, ch. 11)


On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:44 AM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>  (I reject the explanation of derivation from "Pan"and "pastoral" as a
>>>> false,
>>>> too easily given clue. How is Typhon like a frolicking pipe-playing goat
>>>> god?)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Pan is the only god to die within historical time (see Plutarch's Lives),
>>> like Pas.
>>>
>>
>> Is there a link to "pastor"? Typhon-Pas does lead his flock off Urth.
>>
>
> Well, "Typhon *drives* his flock off of Urth" is more accurate I think. He
> also drives them off the Whorl.
>
> It is Silk (indirectly) and Patera Quetzal (directly) who *leads* the flock
> off the Whorl.
>
> u+169b
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Urth Mailing List
> To post, write urth at urth.net
> Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net
>



-- 
Best wishes,
Jack
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.urth.net/pipermail/urth-urth.net/attachments/20100714/8b3d9676/attachment.htm>

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net