The Wizard

Lee Berman · 09 Mar 2012, 18:10 · from 2012-March.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 13:10:30 -0500
Subject: (urth) The Wizard
Message-ID: <SNT123-W304429B0F0F3CB9D9A33C1CF540 at phx.gbl>

>Gerry Quinn: So I don?t see how you can argue that Christianity is not mentioned.

Because it isn't. Quasi-Christian symbols and concepts can be found from pre-Christ
times on earth. Notably in the Egyptian and Roman cultures from which the Whorl society
is most closely modelled upon.  

I don't think the presence of Christian-like symbols in ancient times means that means 
Christianity existed before Jesus Christ. So I don't think similar symbols in the story 
need indicate Christianity in the Sun Series.

In a previous post I agreed with the possibility of the scenario Dan'l recently 
posted: That Silk's vision of a Jesus-like guy was in fact Jesus Christ of earth
and the Outsider draws the image from across universes to provide that vision. Like 
Dan'l, I don't see much evidence of a Christ on Urth. Postulating a secret, hidden, 
society of Christians somewhere on Urth and unmentioned by the author just isn't very 
convincing.

If you are unwilling to acknowlege that quasi-Christian symbolism existed before
Christ on earth I could sorta see how the "sign of addition" might appear as proof 
postive that Christ existed on Urth. Still I would think the presence of haruspicy
(divination via animal entrails) and augury (divination via flight patterns of birds)
by the priests of Viron would at least hint that this is a pre-Christian, pagan sort 
of religion.

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