The face of Pas

James Wynn · 14 Sep 2010, 17:36 · from 2010-September.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:36:56 -0500
Subject: (urth) The face of Pas
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  On 9/14/2010 12:29 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:22 AM, James Wynn<crushtv at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> While there might have been some of that in there, mostly I think Wolfe
>> found it most appealing to create a demonic version Greek mythology as well
>> as tossing in some Etruscan rituals and forms and shunting the whole thing
>> onto a gnostic foundation.
> I agree about Greek, and don't know much about Etruscan stuff, but
> take it from a Catholic: the rituals and forms of the Chapter are dead
> on parodies of Catholic forms and rituals

I agree. The shriving. The "sign of addition". It all says "Roman 
Catholic!" in all-caps. But "augur" and the practice of "augury" is from 
the Etruscan religions. "Sybil" is a Latin word, derived from the Greek. 
So it harkens back to pre-Christian Italy as well. Also the form of 
temples having holes in their ceilings.

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