do the Hierogrammates care about the megatherians?

Jerry Friedman · 22 May 2011, 19:41 · from 2011-May.txt.gz

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From: jerry_friedman at yahoo.com (Jerry Friedman)
Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 12:41:24 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) do the Hierogrammates *care* about the megatherians?
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> From: Gerry Quinn <gerryq at indigo.ie>

...

> Now it is pretty evident that Wolfe did not mean ground sloths,  and probably 
>the 17 Megatherians are some line of human rulers, monsters, or  humans who were 
>for some reason called 'great beasts'.
...

By the way, LU notes that there's a literal "megathere" in CotC, Ch. 22.  Just 
for grins, one possible connection with "the great beast Abaia" is that the 
megathere has a "deathlike sleep"--there's Cthulhu again.  Perhaps some will 
also find significance in the spelling with a final "e" (contrary to my guess 
earlier), unlike the arctother, arsinoither, baluchither, and uintather.  (What 
would I do without LU?)

Jerry Friedman

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