Pike's ghost

David Stockhoff · 29 Nov 2011, 15:27 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:27:42 -0500
Subject: (urth) Pike's ghost
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On 11/29/2011 10:18 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> *From:* David Stockhoff <mailto:dstockhoff at verizon.net>
> > Any ideas on whether Silk's head (when shown to Silk as Pas by Khypris)
> >
> replaced Piaton's or Typhon's head? is Silk ridden or rider?
> I don?t think it matters ? Two-Headed Pas as icon has two equal heads. 
> The Typhon-Piaton origin is no longer relevant, and would be 
> meaningless to Silk, for whom the image is created. Like the Sign of 
> Addition, it is interpreted differently in Silk?s time.

Whether it has meaning to Silk or not is probably irrelevant because he 
has seen little more of Pas than anyone else his age, but I agree that 
even for readers of BNS looking for clues in BLS, the precise historical 
relationship between the heads may be set aside in the absence of any 
indications of which head Silk replaced. Pas is after all no longer a 
rider of a single human body.

But that still leaves us to interpret the vision. *If* one head is more 
Pas than the other (and it may be that neither head is in Pas' 
iconography), the choice of heads may indicate whether Silk is to be 
senior or junior head, with whatever implications may follow. As you 
suggest, Wolfe's vagueness on this point may simply mean it is null.

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