vanished people=Hieros

James Wynn · 10 Nov 2011, 15:43 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:43:06 -0600
Subject: (urth) vanished people=Hieros
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On 11/10/2011 9:34 AM, Marc Aramini wrote:
> Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
> Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
>    And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
> The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.
>
> Just wanted to ask a question about this cosmologically.  What is moving in this quote?  How does it apply to what's going on in Urth of the New Sun?  Is the noose simply an effluvium or arreola of light around something stationary?  Or is it grabbing hold of the turret?  Which stone has been flung?

I've always presumed it is the Venus, the Morning star.

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