Home Fires questions

David Stockhoff · 25 Oct 2011, 00:06 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:06:49 -0400
Subject: (urth) Home Fires questions
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On 10/24/2011 6:45 PM, Stephen Hoy wrote:
> On Oct 24, 2011, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote:
> > I note from Lexicon Urthus that "Os" is a town along Gyoll. It means 
> mouth, opening, source.
> > The loa Legbo, who seems to ride Chelle's father as an Os, is a 
> speaker/mouthpiece/gatekeeper.
>
> Yes, Os = "mouth" is one of the possible meanings that can make you 
> scratch your head.  Another possibility is Os = "Yourselves / Each Other."

Whoa. nice!

> The anthem. "El Continente de los H?roes," was played at the Canam 
> spaceport on Chelle's return, suggesting the possibility of a 
> spanish-language influence when NORA (presumably) chose a name for the 
> Earth's extra-solar adversaries.  Of course it could have a color 
> basis, too, as Os = "bone-(white)."

Well, since the future world is in part a fulfillment of paranoid 
fantasies ....

>
> None of these possibilities gains much traction because we have almost 
> no information about the nature of the Os. The most revealing info 
> comes from a discussion of spying in Ch 2, "I can't imagine how a 
> human being could spy on the Os." "Electronically."


Yeah, there's not much to go on. But I do think the color associations 
are key. As I noted way back, a certain group of loa, including Legba, 
are white rather than other colors. Perhaps the Os have an empire of 
sentient-riders, i.e., they all ride other beings.
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