Where did Abaia go?

Lee Berman · 19 Jul 2010, 04:12 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:12:49 -0400
Subject: (urth) Where did Abaia go?
Message-ID: <SNT123-W5971F597678EC021584DB4CFBF0 at phx.gbl>

>John Watkins: So Abaia could easy have been crushed by a foundered continent
>or mountain, or trapped on a new continent as it rises from the sea and then,
>assuming he could survive the upheaval itself, collapsed under his own weight.
>I think the latter is more probable, simply because we're told in the text that
>Abaia and his kind can't survive outside of water long (perhaps Baldanders
>is the reference, I can't recall) and we actually see Juturna dying in this
>manner.

Yes, considering the "waves of gravitation" emitted  by the onrushing New Sun
that could be the force which kills off the giant monsters. Or perhaps some
newly risen continent has mountain sized gelatinous masses on it baking in 
the warm, golden radiance of Ushas.

I still think the evidence of Abaia in Lake Diuturna is too compelling to 
completely ignore. Doesn't matter though. As a giant shape-shifting alien 
who reproduces asexually and sexually (daughter-brides) the guy can easily be
in two or many more places at once.

Tzadkiel explains his/her similar abilities to have multiple shapes, sizes and 
locations with:

>"the cells of our bodies shift, like those of certain sea creatures on your Urth,
>which can be pressed through a screen yet reunite". 

The screen thing is a classic description of members the Sponge phylum which 
reproduce both sexually and via asexual budding. But perhaps Tzadkiel is 
referring to some very large sea creatures on Urth also. I'm pretty sure 
we get another view of pinched off, shape-shifting, human-sized agents in the 
Short Sun relationship between Seawrack and The Mother. 

I'm still not sure if these answers are as important as Christian allegory though.
We could argue that Juturna survives in Ushas because she is a small enough piece
of Abaia to survive the gravitation or shifty enough to adjust to salt water or
agile enough to avoid rising continents. But I take her survival to mean that even
in a Flood-cleansed, Jesus-enlightened world such as our own Earth, we still have
some minor demons which survive on to plague us. 		 	   		  
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