Father Inire: teratoid

DAVID STOCKHOFF · 14 Dec 2010, 16:08 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (DAVID STOCKHOFF)
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:08:05 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) Father Inire: teratoid
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Message-ID: <867275.20800.qm at web84102.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

That's not far off from my thought, but of course you have to know the numerology to "get" it.
The meaning of a monster sign could not be more simple: don't come in here unless you want to risk being eaten. House servants appreciated this, I'm sure. Any association with Hethor comes from the fact that mirrors can be used to summon monsters, as Hethor did.
But there is always the possibility that in the First Empire people still---perhaps even especially, if birth rates were a problem---cared about causing monstrous births. Who knows what occupational hazards regular use of a mirror might cause.
--- On Tue, 12/14/10, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com>
Subject: (urth) Father Inire: teratoid
To: urth at lists.urth.net
Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 10:15 AM

>David Stockhoff- I take the glyph as a joke, a parody of our "ionizing radiation" symbol. Our civilization 
>posts those; Inire's posts "Monsters" signs. Their? technology is perhaps more blatantly dangerous than ours.

Ah! Yes, I've seen this interpretation of the teratoid sign before. Might be something to it. My gut feeling is
that it is based on an error though. A "teratogen" is an agent which can disrupt fetal development and create
"monsters". Since radiation is one teratogen I can see the how the meaning of "teratoid" could become improperly
associated with radiation instead of your basic "monster".

Perhaps I'm being too literal here and should join in with David on the Wolfean joke. But for me, the glyph is in 
an alien "language". Who is it supposed to warn of danger? Barbatus getting lost in the Secret House? 
For some reason David continues to dance away from what I see as the clear association here: If mirrors connect to 
monsters then Father Inire connects to Hethor.

>Son o' Witz- So, of course I'm trying to figure out what this teratoid symbol LOOKS like.

Heh, me too. I found one which might satify David's (and others') sense of resembling the radiation symbol and my
sense of Father Inire's true nature:

http://ubuntusatanic.org/wallpapers/SE-666.jpg ??? ???????? ?????? ??? ? 
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