Seeing the signs.....

Jeff Wilson · 16 Dec 2010, 20:48 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:48:40 -0600
Subject: (urth) Seeing the signs.....
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On 12/16/2010 6:44 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
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>
>> Jeff Wilson: I'm not sure it's consistent to include Agia's hex sign scribbled in the dust and
>> not the beats or masks painted on the towers, or the theatrical masks appearing in various places.
>
> Ryan does say: "If you have more to add, by all means share." I'd be interested in more detail or
> text quotes for your contributions, Jeff.
>
> The jurupari hex sign is wreathed in letters so I think it needs inclusion on the list. I was most
> confused by the inclusion of Gurloes' iron phallus. Severian thinks it is a symbol but then realizes
> it is not. It is just a plain old tool (argh! sorry).
>
> Given my current exploration of the role of Dionysus and Great God Pan in the Sun series I was less
> interested in the PROPHET's crudely carved staff and more interested in the goatskin he was wearing (heh).
> Another Inire-Faunus-Inuus reference? Awfully pagan at any rate, which might be a bit odd from a straight
> Judeo-Christian interpretation for a prophet in a play called Eschatology and Genesis

This doesn't strike me as particularly pagan - Moses leading the tribes 
through the desert could have looked much the same, and he did 
sympathetic magic like nailing an effigy snake to a pole to ward off 
death by snake venom.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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