vanished people=Hieros

Lee Berman · 10 Nov 2011, 20:02 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:02:56 -0500
Subject: (urth) vanished people=Hieros
Message-ID: <SNT123-W6057C1584E69A294B56FD8CFDC0 at phx.gbl>

> 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.
>
> Marc Aramini: 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?

>James Wynn: I've always presumed it is the Venus, the Morning star.

It could be. The planets move faster in the sky than the stars. Of course
the "stone" that really "puts the stars to flight" is the sun, and it moves
in the sky faster still.

I think The Hunter is Orion and the Noose of Light is the Big Dipper. The Sultan's
Tower is just that. A tall structure in Omar Kayaam's field of vision as he gazes
at the star-spangled early dawn sky. Also could be an astronomy connection. Kayaam
was an astronomer as well as poet and the Persians used their towers for that purpose.

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