Claw = Fang?

David Stockhoff · 22 Nov 2012, 21:54 · from 2012-November.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:54:14 -0500
Subject: (urth) Claw = Fang?
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On 11/22/2012 3:49 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:
> From: David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>
> Very well thought out! If the thorn is the key to the meaning of the Claw, and fangs do seem to occupy a space adjacent to thorns, they are therefore a link to the Claw.
>> It occurs to me that the Claw is not associated with any animal, even by speculation. One thinks of a bird, especially a bird of prey, but this is not supported at all.
> ...
>
> In fact it's rejected.
>
> "(Because the Conciliator is given a Claw, one is tempted to make the easy association of the eagle of Jove with the sun; it is perhaps too pat.)"
>
> CotC, Appendix
>
> Jerry Friedman

Yes, of course. "Perhaps too pat" indeed. It all but instructs us to 
look elsewhere, doesn't it? Away from the pagan and toward Genesis, maybe.

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