DOORS: The Hero, The Otherworld, The Ending

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 17 Jan 2003, 18:52 · from urth-v0301.mbox · original

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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
Subject: RE: (urth) DOORS: The Hero, The Otherworld, The Ending
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:52:45 -0700
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> OK.  Do you have a better term than "Catholic fabulation?" =3D20
> It seems that would resolve our remaining differences.

I guess I don't understand why "Christian Fabulation" won't
do here, which is why I like the idea of just calling it "CF"
and leaving the "C" semi-ambiguous. Though "CatFab" has a nice
ring to it.

Your use of the word Catholic seems to stem from the=3D20
proposition that "Catholicism came from the imposition of=3D20
a male-centered Semitic religion on top of a dyarchical=3D20
male/female European pantheon." While this is accurate enough
from one point of view, it seems to me that, at the time and=3D20
in the place where this occurred, the words "Catholic" and
"Christian" were essentially synonymous ... and since the
Orthodox church inherits much of the same thing, the primary
function of saying "Catholic" here would be to exclude
"Protestant" Christianity. Yet members of Protestant sects
definitely seem to write this sort of thing ...=3D20

I also understand that you want a word which would exclude,
say, A CANTICLE FOR LIEBOWITZ. (H'mmm ... would you include
A CASE OF CONSCIENCE, or HYPERION?) It seems to me that the
word "fabulation" does that fairly effectively. Or perhaps
"Christian Mythopoieic Fantasy," which would be accurate but
ugly ...?

--Blattid

--=20

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