Return to the Whorl

Sergei SOLOVIEV · 12 Oct 2011, 13:36 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: soloviev at irit.fr (Sergei SOLOVIEV)
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:36:38 +0200
Subject: (urth) Return to the Whorl
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My personal opinion is that 1) It is related to the idea
that for the final resurrection and Last Judgement the soul must be reunited
with the body. For this purpose, by the way, the body must be buried and not
burned, for example. I cannot remember, what is explicitly told on this 
in the Bible,
but it is a very strong tradition in Catholic Church and Ortodox 
Christianity.
GW gives it a sort of a twist - meaning that Scylla-Cilinia on the Long Sun
Whorl, and even its "weak copy" in Oreb can be seen as having a "chunk 
of its
main soul" and it must be reunited with its body. 2) The deal is that the
Scylla on the red Sun Whorl teaches Horn how to find/call Seawrack
using its language and in exchange he brings a piece of soul of Cilinia
who was connected with Scylla. 3) Because he thinks that Silk-Horn
visiting the Red Sun Whorl as a sort of a ghost (in the Book of the Short
Sun) is Malrubius. 4) I think that it has to return to the Urth (Ushas)
to repopulate it after the flood.

Best

Sergei Soloviev

larry miller wrote:
>  finished up RttW and I am still confused about a number of things.
> 1) Why exactly does Scylla want to return to her body buried in
> Nessus?  2) What was the deal she and Horn made with the Megatherian
> Scylla?  3) Why does Severian say the bird (that has to be Oreb)
> belong to Master Malrubius?  4) Where does the Whorl going when its
> relaunched?
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