Father Inire: teratoid

Son of Witz · 15 Dec 2010, 00:21 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:21:39 -0800
Subject: (urth) Father Inire: teratoid
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On Dec 14, 2010, at 3:33 PM, "Jeff Wilson" <jwilson at io.com> wrote:

>> I'm not so good at religious, especially Christian, philosophy. But I get
>> the impression Gene Wolfe believes in the
>> reality of the polytheistic pagan gods and the gnostic pre-Christ world of
>> angels and demons.
> 
>> I get the impression Wolfe feels we on Earth are lucky enough to have
>> gotten Christ,
> 
> These are both attested to by Wolfe in interviews, so your impressions are
> correct.
> 
> 
>> so not only is there forgiveness
>> of our sins, a reconcilliation between God and man, but also a joining of
>> the various opposite aspects of gods from
>> our gnostic past. They have been reconciled into one true, unified God.
>> (that never quite happens in Briah or on
>> Ushas).
> 
> There is a possibility that the Green Man is meant to suggest this happens
> in the distant future of Ushas. If his people are fed internally by their
> symbiotic algae and no longer must rely on the yearly success of crops or
> catch, they no longer must sacrifice to the four gods, and may live
> directly from the light of the Sun, with likewise no intercessors between
> themselves and God.

Yes, I agree that is is essentially what The Green Man symbolizes. He says nearly as much quite plainly.  They are a humanity of non-torturers.

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