Who is the Long Sun?

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) Who is the Long Sun?
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 22:15:35 -0700
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Hey guys.  So parallelism has finally led the question "Who are the long an=
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short suns, if Severian is the New sun?" to appear on the list.  And strang=
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enough, we have an answer in the text of Calde of the Long Sun.

Auk is the Long Sun.

During the tunnel scene (I read it last week - it's just shy of halfway=20
through the book, but I don't have the book with me now) where Auk is down=20
there posessed and having hallucinations and he's looking for Dace, he star=
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thinking to himself and comes to the conclusion that, of course, he is the=20
long sun.  I remember scratching my head at that one.  Does that mean that =
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god that possesses Auk controls the cooling and heating of the Sun, or does=
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mean that Auk himself is in some way a manifestation of the Long Sun, since=
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"doesn't have a father or mother" but mysteriously has a brother who is mor=
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than happy to show up after his death.

Any thoughts on that?

Marc Aramini

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