Wind god

Gerry Quinn · 08 Nov 2010, 15:12 · from 2010-November.txt.gz

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From: gerryq at indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 15:12:01 -0000
Subject: (urth) Wind god
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From: "James Wynn" <crushtv at gmail.com>
> By the same token, it would not be necessary for there to have been a 
> Jesus of Nazareth in Severian's cycle for there to be a Catholic Church. 
> They would have a Catholic Church, with similar rituals, because there was 
> one in the cycle just following or just preceding Severian's--just as 
> grooms wear black in our world because men die after sex in Laraworld. 
> (Since Time is not an issue, the cycles exist simultaneously in all 
> practical senses.)  And there might have been a Catholic Church in one of 
> THOSE other cycles only because there was one in the cycle on the other 
> side. And, although, only the universe with a Christ has a true rationale 
> for having a Catholic Church, all of the Catholic Churches are *actually* 
> honoring the Christ in the original cycle (because if A=B and B=C, then 
> A=C).

But in fact there is no particular evidence that there is a Catholic Church 
in the Solar Cycle, except that a religion that has some similarities to it 
is described as being a parody of some undescribed state religion (this 
information comes from an alien vampire who was never on Urth).  But there 
are several pieces of evidence for the existence of Jesus.

In BotNS itself, there is no real evidence for either.

- Gerry Quinn

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