Thanks, John Bishop, for that useful and interesting URL. Now I have a question (mantis, please don't have a cow: I know you've already addressed this, but I wasn't paying enough attention). Briah is Heaven, and Tzadkiel is the Archangel of Justice, and also the angel who seems to be assigned to Yesod (although the chart says it ought to be Gabriel). Yesod is the ninth of ten parallel universes, is that it? And each angel looks after one universe? And then Apheta looks after our solar system (she is the mother of the New Son--er, Sun). Is this how it works?
-alga-
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alga,
Could you rephrase your question(s)? Are you asking about Kabbalah (in all its wooly forms), interpretations of the Urth Cycle (in all its wooly forms), the intersection of these two sets, or something else again?
Kabbalah has only four "worlds," which seems to be what your "ten parallel universes" is relating to, but you are conflating sephiroth (the ten sephiroth) with worlds (there are four in Kabbalah and "at least three universes" in the Urth Cycle). Most K-worlds have more than one sephira to them.
So your question is . . . ?
=mantis=
P.S. I agree with Mark Millman re: Koran/Chinese. Not that it
matters much--a single person could speak both languages (for example, among the communist forces during the Korean War). (Note: Hethor is not described as a "xanthoderm," that is, he looks as European as the Commonality.) Then again, I myself speak Japanese (years of college level instruction, years of living in Japan) and Korean sounds very much like Japanese to me, beyond what the dictionary will tell you about both being monotone, etc. Both Korean and Japanese owe a huge debt to Chinese, but "tone" is not one of the features either language borrowed.
=m=
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