Wind god

Lee Berman · 05 Nov 2010, 12:57 · from 2010-November.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 08:57:15 -0400
Subject: (urth) Wind god
Message-ID: <SNT123-W5634C50BE81C94730D7093CF4C0 at phx.gbl>

>Andrew Mason- According to Dorcas's account of the Conciliator he used to disappear and reappear, 
>suggesting that Severian's trip to Typhon's time is not the sole source of the legend.

>Son o'Witz- I like this. It adds to the idea that the Tomb Builder Severian is out meddling 
around beyond the text.

Agreed, Andrew brings up an interesting idea that I hadn't thought much about before. Severian does 
see a couple guys who look like himself in the crowd at the inn during the Zama incident.

Moreover, Typhon himself describes the Conciliator as a "wonderworker" to Severian. This would seem
to be a sarcastic comment given that the demonstration to Typhon we see of The Conciliator's power
consists of him jabbing a dagger into a tabletop. But if Severian had doppelgangers who continued to 
appear in Typhon's realm healing and purifying lust and whatnot, perhaps Typhon really did accept that 
the Conciliator had superhuman powers, by the time he died on his couch.

>or that the Conciliator is a composite figure made up of various people, of whom Jesus is, perhaps, the 
>first, and Severian the last.

This doesn't work for me, especially since my understanding of the sub-textual story of BotNS requires that
this world/universe never had a Jesus. But this touches on many previous debates on whether Urth is Earth, 
which is past which is future etc.

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