Fish and Cave

Gerry Quinn · 23 Dec 2010, 18:45 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: gerryq at indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:45:44 -0000
Subject: (urth) Fish and Cave
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From: "Lee Berman" <severiansola at hotmail.com>
> Anyway, the fish theme is strong here. Pia's people worship Oannes, the 
> fish god. The town
> on the shore is named Murene which basically means "Eel". The Lake is 
> Diuturna which is about the same
> word as Juturna. Baldanders seems to want to go "swimming with Undines" 
> there. And of course we have
> Severian eating fish and labelling himself as an Oannes at the end of 
> UotNS. Good fishing indeed!
>
> (shore and island people again as paired opposites, one "good" one "evil". 
> Can we really think that Oannes
> and Abaia are different gods in the same lake?)

I thought we were told that Abaia lived in the sea?  I can't recall where 
exactly, but the locations of Erebus and Abaia were given at some point.

- Gerry Quinn

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