Gender and creation myth

Lee Berman · 24 Sep 2012, 12:55 · from 2012-September.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:55:55 -0400
Subject: (urth) Gender and creation myth
Message-ID: <SNT123-W325187C5919C9779A904DECF9E0 at phx.gbl>

>David Stockhoff: 
>(1) The Long Sun Whorl bears a number of systemic resemblances to Eden, 
>including gender-based naming systems
>(2) The Neighbors presumably introduced the inhumi to the Whorl as a 
>sort of test, much like another well-known reptilian character

I could use some elaboration or explanation for these two.

(3) The Neighbors withdrew from both Green and Blue, essentially giving 
them to humanity to make their own (and in Marc's word, "make better"?)

I read this part of the text as social allegory. How does a Christian-
Libertarian author think we ought to work to make the world a better place?

What are the problems facing Blue? We have the expected human social issues
found in New Viron, Dorp and Gaon. And we have giant false gods in the ocean
who produce temptations. So perhaps some of the improvement Wolfe is expecting
it that we stop worshipping false gods (money, power, sex?). Perhaps this is 
the Christian side.

But surely the worse and more immediate problem is the inhumi.

>Marc Aramini: Also, note quetzal's tree planted on the Long Sun: man has climbed 
>up the tree, but has not yet climbed down it.... "No one ever asks why the cobra 
wanted Wo-man to eat his fruit"

Could this partly be an evolutionary allusion? Is Wolfe asking us to improve by 
fully shrugging off our animalistic, primate heritage?

Anyway, that tree was planted by an inhumu named Quetzal. A quetzal is a bird
but could Wolfe be hinting at Quetzalcoaltl, the feathered serpent god of the
Azteks?

The Inhumi are deceptive parasites by nature. They can't do anything through
their own efforts except deceive people and leech off them. They are presented
as the ultimate evil. Could this be Wolfe's Libertarian, anti-socialism side
showing?

(Sorry, to restart a previous debate but when I say the inhumi can't do anything
through their own efforts, that includes flying through space. I still assert
they cannot do this impossible thing but perpetuate the lie because it masks
their greatest weakness/secret. They can only achieve interplanetary travel as 
stowaways, unwanted hitchhikers or even (in the case of the lander) hijacking. 
I bring it up because I recently started to wonder about Patera Remora. His 
name indicates a creature which is, by essential nature, an unwanted hitchhiker.
Is there any evidence that Remora is or is not inhumi?)

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