Juturna, the Missing Sister

David Stockhoff · 29 Jul 2010, 15:13 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:13:01 -0400
Subject: (urth) Juturna, the Missing Sister
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"wide cheekbones, and the elongated brown eyes that often accompany 
them" is a strong clue. This is an ethnic flag of some kind, not a 
family one.

I'm not sure where I got "southern" from---I didn't mean THAT far 
south---but perhaps you're right, and the north is where that heritage 
persists.

I agree that Agia seems a sorceress.

Lee Berman wrote:
>   
>> David Stockton- How do you account for the facial appearance of Agia/Agilus? I believe 
>> Severian's description pegs them as Southerners, perhaps as related to 
>> autochthons (i.e., Indians or what we would call Hispanics): long eyes, 
>> flat cheeks, chestnut hair. Something like that.
>>     
>  
> A good question. First, I'd say Southerners are mostly, like Hallvard, tall, pale skinned
> and blonde, from the cold parts of The Commonwealth. To the north of Nessus are the 
> Indian-looking autochthon people. Quite a few around the area of Thrax, where Agia and
> Agilus might have roots, if their mother is Cyriaca.
>  
> Agia is described as having a short nose, elongated brown eyes and wide cheekbones. Agilus
> is described as having flat cheeks. In Thrax, when Cyriaca is describing Severian's masked
> face she mentions high cheekbones and flat cheeks. It seems like there could be a family
> resemblance though not a strong one.
>  
> When Severian first meets Agia she is wearing a pavonine brocade gown. I have recently 
> learned "pavonine" means peacock-like. I would not be quick to associate this with 
> the fallen peacock angel, Prometheus-cognate demon Azazel except that Agia has a few 
> things which associate her with demonic stuff...she mentions lamia jewelry, scratches a
> jurupari design, carries the warlock sword and uses a claw weapon similar to the Jungle
> Sorcerers.
>  
> I think Agia's other two weapons might link her to Thrax and Cyriaca. She has the crooked
> dagger at Casdoe's house. And she mentions a "misericorde" from her shop which is a slim
> blade used to perform battlefield mercy killings on mortally wounded warriors. This would
> be a likely item to be found in a shop run by a former Pelerine.
>  
>  
> For those interested- The Jurupari (or Yuripari) was a monkey-like demon of the Tupi Indians
> a southern, Atlantic coast tribe of S. America. He is known as the enforcer of a forbidden
> fruit taboo and swallowed some child transgressors whole, to be vomited up later. Jurupari
> shares its name with a cichlid family member, also called Demon Fish. This family is known for
> hatching and brooding and protecting their babies in their mouths, to be spit out later when
> safety returns. I find associations with Inire, Abaia and The Mother on Blue to be possible. 		 	   		  
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