Who is the Long Sun?

Andy Robertson · 06 Sep 2003, 06:40 · from urth-v0309.mbox · original

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From: "Andy Robertson" <andywrobertson at clara.co.uk>
Subject: Re: (urth) Who is the Long Sun?
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 07:40:20 +0100
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There is an obvious analog to Auk in the New Sun books - Hildegrim the
badger.

Like Auk, Hildegrim is tall, heavy, dark and strong,  starts out as our
hero's mentor, is morally ambiguous, and comes to a bad end.

And there is a near-"twinning" in the scene with Apu-Punchau in the dead
town

Auk/Hildegrim seems to be the *false* brother

    hartshorn

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Wynn" <crushtv at hotpop.com>

> Crush responds:
> I'd forgotten about that. Okay. This is the wierdest puzzle I've come
across
> in the whole LS/SS series. Which is, how is Auk Silk? They evenly divide
> between them the activities of three totally separate mythological
> archetypes. Yet in one of those archetypal references, Auk is Silk's
> brother.

--=20

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