do the Hierogrammates care about the megatherians?

James Wynn · 23 May 2011, 03:09 · from 2011-May.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 22:09:57 -0500
Subject: (urth) do the Hierogrammates *care* about the megatherians?
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>> James:
>> Obviously, ambiguity is built into Wolfe's novels. There's no false 
>> positive test. I'm pretty comfortable that I'm right about this. 
>> Maybe I should get serious about locating Fish.
>
> Gerry Quinn:
> Remus, obviously.

Why call Juno, Rhea Silvia, and Mars by direct cognates and call Romulus 
and Remus by Frog and Fish? There's no "Fish" in the "Jungle Book".

I think it is an easy call that Ymar is Frog (ymir=king=rana=frog). I 
suspect that Fish will be found on Tzadkiel (the shepherds). Possibly he 
will have a name that means "sword".

J.

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