Wind god

Gerry Quinn · 03 Nov 2010, 15:51 · from 2010-November.txt.gz

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From: gerryq at indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 15:51:42 -0000
Subject: (urth) Wind god
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From: "Lee Berman" <severiansola at hotmail.com>
>
> Still pecking through RttW and finding interesting revelations.
> One thing I find striking are the numerous mentions of Typhon/Pas as
> a god of winds. Why are we hit over the head so hard with this when the
> connection wasn't addressed at all in the previous five books of the 
> Long/Short
> Sun series? (unless we count the hot, drought winds plaguing the Whorl 
> during
> Silk's ascendence).

I read the Short Sun trilogy recently.  I noticed Pas was associated with a 
whirlwind once or twice, but that's all I remember - certainly not being hit 
hard with it.  And a whirlwind is different from a typhoon or sirocca.

I don't really see why the association would be important anyway, though. 
What, if anything,does it tell us about him?  I can see how a whirlwind or 
windstorm might reflect his rapid conquest of Urth - but we already know 
about that!

- Gerry Quinn

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