cynocephalus

John Watkins · 09 Aug 2010, 13:23 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: john.watkins04 at gmail.com (John Watkins)
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 09:23:54 -0400
Subject: (urth) cynocephalus
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On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:30 AM, <hammstu at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Has anyone suggested that the ape like figures and Inire in particular are
> Inhumi and that's how they got on the Whorl before it orbited Blue and
> Green??
>

I thought it had been suggested and officially debunked by Wolfe
himself...but a quick google got me only this:

 Are the Cumaean and/or Merryn inhumi? Possibly, or definitely?  No. The
Cumaean is an alien but not an inhuma. Merryn is a human being.
http://www.sfsite.com/03b/gw124.htm

So the Cumaean, at least, is not an inhuma but Wolfe didn't rule out Inire
being one in that quote.  I still seem to recall seeing somewhere a more
general comment by Wolfe that the inhumi were not present on Urth during
Book of the New Sun, but I can't find it.



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> Subject: (urth) cynocephalus
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>
> >Jane Delawney- as of right now I have no idea what if anything
> >this refers to, save forward to the ape-like creature on the Ship (or,
> >if you prefer, that ape-like creature may refer back to the cynocephalus
>
> There has been some rather lively discussion, originating with Robert
> Borski
> (Solar Labyrinth) and elaborated in here, that Father Inire, called monkey-
> like in his first description, may be a shapeshifter who appears as the
> cynocephalus (a.k.a. baboon), a uakari and perhaps some other monkeys too.
> Just to keep tabs on Severian.
>
> There has been discussion of some other monkey-like characters and their
> possible relationship to the elusive Father Inire. Some do not like the
> idea.
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