Osiris = the Green Man in BOTNS?

David Stockhoff · 23 Dec 2012, 03:40 · from 2012-December.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 22:40:54 -0500
Subject: (urth) Osiris = the Green Man in BOTNS?
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On 12/22/2012 10:21 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
> On 12/22/2012 9:08 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>> I had forgotten Osiris was green, but I think you nailed it. The Green
>> Man represents rebirth, as Osiris does.
>
> Horus, the posthumously fathered son of Osiris, represented rebirth. 
> Osiris stays dead and represented the flesh of the dead nourishing life.
>
> If the images are taken from Egyptian myth, they are remixed with 
> themes as thoroughly as in the Student and his Son.

Well, of course they are! interesting that there is a dead son in such 
close proximity when Severian meets Typhon.

Typhon had a second chance at "winning." He lost.

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