The Wizard

James Wynn · 28 Feb 2012, 08:21 · from 2012-February.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:21:23 -0600
Subject: (urth) The Wizard
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IIRC when things go to hell, the Most Low God turns and runs away. We 
see his back, so we know he was lying about the worlds being circular. 
And surely the Most Low God must always lie.

     >"I didn't detect any Judeo-Christian element except for the
    (pretty amazing) appearance of
     > Michael the Archangel."

The ending of The Wizard was as close to straight allegory (Christian 
allegory) as Wolfe gets.
As for why the connection between Alfather and Michael, well I believe 
it has to do with the fact that in Germany the chapels to St. Michael  
(that is, the angel) were built over sites of worship to Woden.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C5%8Ddanaz#Medieval_reception

Michael consumed all the all nobel aspects of Woden (Odin, All-father). 
Or perhaps as Wolfe sees it, Michael is a *higher form* of Allfather.

J.

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