Pike's ghost

Gerry Quinn · 28 Nov 2011, 01:39 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:39:48 -0000
Subject: (urth) Pike's ghost
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From: Larry Miller 

> well of course Gerry.  But Typhon is a monster in the same way that
> Abaia or Erebus are monsters.  As I said before if you see Typhon as
> human thats fine.  I just trust Wolfes naming conventions and certain
> clues that I interpreted to point towards Typhon not being human.  As
> Ive said before Piaton is surely human and Typhons head is probably
> human too.  But his name seems to signify alien origin.  We know that
> possession of bodies by Typhon and his family is possible so why is it
> hard to think that Typhon occupied other bodies before Piaton and the
> blond haired man?
The possession is technological, based on light pulses sent via the Sacred Windows.  There?s no evidence that Typhon himself can do it.  Scanning is the same for Silk as for Typhon / Kypris / Cilinia.
Cilinia, his daughter, seems to be a human girl.   She even has a saint?s name.   Presumably Kypris is also (we don?t know her original name).
Typhon is unique in his rapid conquest of Urth.  If he inhabited other bodies previously, why don?t we hear of them?
- Gerry Quinn
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