Some problems if the Pancreator/Outsider is the Holy T rinity

Jerry Friedman13 Jun 2002, 22:48original as archived

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--- Michael Straight <straight at email.unc.edu> wrote: On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:

So Typhon and his brood create the Whorl, a place in which they can be as gods; they brutally try to suppress all memory of the religions of Urth. Yet hints of these religions creep through, so that the "Vironese Faith" rather resembles Temple Judaism, albeit with many Gods; so that the Trivigauntes have a religion very similar to Islam, except with the sexual roles reversed; and so that there is even some vague memory of the Incarnation.

I assumed that these were deliberate parodies of Islam, Judaism, Christianity, etc. by Typhon et. al.

... The Vironese faith is not in fact that much like Judaism. They share priests sacrificing animals in a temple, but I don't remember private confession, augury, or dancing sibyls in Judaism, and of course there's no polytheism. The haruspication makes it more like the ancient Romans' religion, doesn't it? Jerry Friedman

Andy Robertson17 Jun 2002, 05:26original as archived

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From: "Jerry Friedman" <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> The Vironese faith is not in fact that much like Judaism. They share priests sacrificing animals in a temple, but I don't remember private confession, augury, or dancing sibyls in Judaism, and of course there's no polytheism. The haruspication makes it more like the ancient Romans' religion, doesn't it?

The Vironese faith is obviously based on ancient greek religion, with some inpout from other Indo-European polytheisms: The maor thematic links are to the gods and goddesses in "Soldier in the Mist". hartshorn