Beast with Three Horns / Pike as Father of Blood

James Jordan · 03 Jan 2002, 22:44 · from whorl-v0013.mbox · original

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From: James Jordan <jbjordan4 at home.com>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Beast with Three Horns / Pike as Father of Blood
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 16:44:14 -0600
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At 09:21 AM 1/3/2002 -0700, you wrote:

>Ok, then we get that weird scene at the very end of On blue's Waters where
>"someone on shore called again, for Babbie, and I understood that he mant =
me;
>it never so much as occurred to me then that I had sometimes been called
>"Silk" or "Horn." He who called me seemed quite near, and he called me with
>more urgency than Sewrack ever has." (221 of SFBC BOTSS) ..."Goodbye again
>Nettle.  I have always loved you.  Good-bye, Sinew, my son.  [more good-by=
es
>to everybody]...I found him in the forest, sitting in the dark under the
>trees.  I could not see him.  It was too dark to see anything.  But I knelt
>beside him and laid my head upon his knee, and he comforted me." (222)

         The rest of your post is interesting, and you may be right, but at=20
present I'm more inclined to think this was a Neighbor calling to Horn as a=20
"baby." I don't see evidence that Horn can "transmigrate his soul" in any=20
way apart from Neighborly help. Maybe I'm forgetting something. Doesn't he=20
only have such astral visitations and transportations when in contact with=20
a Neighbor or a Neighborly artifact (such as an inhumu)?
         I thought of Horn as like a Babbie to the Neighbors, just as=20
astrally Babbie is a kind of subhuman man (a baby) to Horn/Silk.
         But I don't have any thoughts on the 3-horned beast. Your=20
hypothesis is interesting, to say the least. The Harlot in Revelation rules=20
over the earth on a 10-horned beast, often taken to mean 10 nations (i.e.,=20
10 parts of the Roman Empire -- though I don't think this is the right=20
interpretation). Doesn't Horn(/Silk) rule, one way or another, successively=20
over three nations of Blue?

Nutria

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