planetary problems

Jeff Wilson · 28 Dec 2010, 08:06 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:06:51 -0600
Subject: (urth) planetary problems
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On 12/28/2010 1:30 AM, Marc Aramini wrote:
> Now, why is Apheta's face specifically linked to Lune? If it's a portal,
> then we DO have movement from Yesod directly onto Lune (is Lune a portal
> in this scheme?

One reason may be that after Sev associates the visually similar moon 
with portals to Yesod, and from Yesod. Urth Chapter XV: "Then we were 
through and seemed suspended in azure light; behind us, where once I had 
seen the corona lucis of the young suns, I now saw our universe, a 
circle no larger than an ebon moon in the sky of Yesod, a moon that soon 
shrank to a solitary mote, then vanished."

> Apheta's face
> mentioned twice on the moon and the Hieros ability to create suns and
> planets MUST be important, I just don't understand the nature of those
> planets.

The Yesodis' creations are mighty, but are not true planets and stars. 
For example, the ocean covers a huge Kirbyesque machine larger than a 
terrestrial planet, but it has less gravity than Urth due to the space 
inside for access by the Yesodis and merely gigantic beetle-like 
subordinate mechanisms. There's also no tide, despite a normal-looking 
sun, so whatever that is, it has even less mass than Lune or must be 
incredibly more distant than a normal star.

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

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