5HC - Maison du Chien

jbarach at aol.com · 03 Sep 2014, 15:46 · from 2014-September.txt.gz

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From: jbarach at aol.com (jbarach at aol.com)
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 11:46:25 -0400
Subject: (urth) 5HC - Maison du Chien
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I should have added this:

Just a couple chapters before this passage about "wolf-houses" in The City of God, Augustine also talks about werewolves:   

Finally, he [Varro] mentions by name a certain Demaenetus, who tasted the sacrifice of a child which the Arcadians customarily made to the god Lycaeus.  Demaenetus was changed into a wolf; but, ten years later, he was restored to his proper nature, trained as a boxer and won a victory at the Olympic Games.  And the same historian also considers that the surname given in Arcadia to Pan Lycaeus and Jupiter Lycaeus can be due to no other reason than this transformation of men into wolves, which, it is supposed, can only be brought about by divine power.  For the Greek word for "wolf" is lykos, and the name 'Lycaeus' is clearly derived from this word.  Varro also says that the Roman Luperci originated from these mysteries, which were, so to speak, the seed from which they grew (City of God 18.17).  

A passage about werewolves, followed a few chapters later by a reference to whorehouses being called "wolf-houses."  If Wolfe didn't devour these passages and use them, he should have!  Is there any way of asking him or finding out if City of God influenced him?  

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Lee <severiansola at hotmail.com>
To: urth <urth at urth.net>
Sent: Wed, Sep 3, 2014 8:16 am
Subject: (urth) 5HC - Maison du Chien

>Richard Simon: Maybe Maitre intended to repopulate Ste. Croix and 

>Ste. Anne with pure-human clones...

There might be something to this. There are hints at the preferability

of a pure human race, uncontaminated by alien interbreeding to be found

in BotNS.

The inspiration might well be the Bible. The reason given for the Flood was 

the vague explanation of "the wickedness of men". But the Genesis passage 

just before the Flood verses shed more light on that "wickedness" in the 

minds of some theological scholars.

The previous passage (Genesis 6:4) discusses the Nephilim, a race of giants, 

ostensibly created from the sexual congress between human women and fallen 

angels (demons). This half-breed race is surely cognate to the Greek heroes

who were usually the product of human women and Olympian gods.

There are textual hints that such things have happened, in parallel, on Urth, 

hence the otherwise unexplained reason that a Flood was necessary for the

cleansing of Urth and need for a re-population from pure human stock. 		 	   		  

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