spatial temporal rules of astral travel

Son of Witz · 25 Dec 2010, 18:29 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 10:29:27 -0800
Subject: (urth) spatial temporal rules of astral travel
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On Dec 24, 2010, at 11:53 PM, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> Thanks to all for the Holiday Greetings!
> 
>> Son o'Witz: Well, his act still gives humanity the chance to live on. Whether they will be enslaved, 
>> or an improved humanity is an open question. Severian's role does not seem to be to destroy these titans.
> 
> Witz, this reminds me that I've been operating on a few assumptions about Ushas which may need to be
> questioned. I'm thinking you are saying that the only purpose of Severian's efforts was the simple and 
> obviousneed to fix the sun.
> 
> An assumption for many has been that the sun was deliberately broken, the black hole placed in its center
> (presumably by hierogrammates) because of the presence of Typhon or the Megatherians or some combination.
> So the fixing of the sun must involve the removal of such creatures if it is to have a real purpose.
> 
> But this interpretation need not be the case. Do you operate without it, holding the black hole in the sun
> to be a natural event?                         
> 


I understand the dying sun as a threat of judgement by the Yesodis. Urth is being judged, and Severian, as the Epitome, stands for all.  This much is clear. How this relates to Erebus and Abaia, well, I don't remember any mention in UotNS.

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