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Lee Berman · 17 Nov 2011, 21:22 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:22:07 -0500
Subject: (urth) (no subject)
Message-ID: <SNT123-W630560B2D0C1848CF5FFB4CFC70 at phx.gbl>

>James Wynn: Also, there is the whole (quite intentional) Osiris motif in which Isis 
>(Kypris) has to run around gathering parts of the god after he has been murdered.

>Marc Aramini: I agree that the mapping of some myths are to be expected and found, 
>my problem with bringing in a bunch of different mythos is that Wolfe couldn't have 
>alluded to them all intentionally and still made a good story 

>David Stockhoff: I dunno, Marc. Osiris's murder story is a very specific, concrete 
>narrative which is plainly retold here up to a point.

I concur. Moreover there is some evidence that Wolfe is intentionally shifting his
allusion from Greco-Roman myth allusion of Urth to the sea neigbor/rival Egyptian mythology
for the Whorl. The two(as far as I know) Greek and Egyptian mythological characters which 
share a name are Typhon and Sphinx. And Wolfe has included both in this story.

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