Seeing the signs

Andrew Mason · 16 Dec 2010, 22:45 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com (Andrew Mason)
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:45:02 +0000
Subject: (urth) Seeing the signs
Message-ID: <AANLkTin3Es2aqub8zyjsau_PAGacLJBieRFM45Yn+Ty+ at mail.gmail.com>

Jeff Wilson wrote:
>>
>> 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.

'They went about in sheepskins and goatskins' (Hebrews 11.37). I
suspect this is a reference to something specific in the Old
Testament, but I'm not sure what.
>

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