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Lee Berman · 26 Nov 2012, 18:37 · from 2012-November.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:37:55 -0500
Subject: (urth) (no subject)
Message-ID: <SNT123-W9513419DE385687576D3ACF5F0 at phx.gbl>

>Marc Aramini: the secret of the inhumi is that they are all that is left of humanity, a vestigial 
>parasite that can no longer breed without a fresh infusion of human blood.

>For all intents and purposes, they are humans, and their little mating ritual where they pretend to 
>be man and woman is just ontogeny recapitulating philogeny.

I tend to agree. Over and over the Inhumi are described as reptilian. Then they end up mimicking
a mammalian mating ritual but reproducing like amphibians in the water. What gives? I know Wolfe's 
zoology is not so deficient.

Marc, I mentioned an Eden connection to Green via Quetzal's story in the thread Claw = Fang?. Then there 
is the "GREEN is Urth!". How does this origin myth relate to the Inhumi being "vestigal parasites"? Which
came first, humans or inhumi?

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