Do the Hierogrammates care about the Megatherians?

Andrew Mason · 19 May 2011, 22:21 · from 2011-May.txt.gz

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From: andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com (Andrew Mason)
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 23:21:52 +0100
Subject: (urth) Do the Hierogrammates *care* about the Megatherians?
Message-ID: <BANLkTinqrr1DEOe4GT9X0=2M9+hAwpPF1Q at mail.gmail.com>

Gerry Quinn wrote>

> First, I don't think the 'seventeen megatherians' were anything to do with
> Erebus, Abaia etc. ?The number doesn't particularly match, but more
> important than that, we have a book called "The Lives of the Seventeen
> Megatherians" which has a somewhat historical feel to it, as if the story of
> the megatherians (whoever they were) is long over, which is not the case of
> the powers currently in the sea.

I think alternatively it might be a work of biology dealing with the
lives of great beasts - the smilodon, the mammoth and so on. I agree
that the megatherians are unlikely to be the sea-monsters, of whom I
think we never hear of more than four.

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