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Lee Berman- But The Green Man is a significant alternate name for the pagan horned god, Great God Pan,
etc. Is Wolfe suggesting this is the ultimate and true, unified god of Briah?
Matthew Weber- I really can't see how the text is suggesting such a thing any more than it's suggesting
that Jonas is the ultimate and true, unified god of Briah. Happy to reconsider if I'm missing something,
of course.
What I mean is that after the massive plot contortions and planetary upheavals, at the end of the story on
Ushas we are not left with much of anything that suggests a Christian outcome. No monotheism, no Savior.
Instead we have 4 gods derived from human sources, two male, two female, two light, two dark. Plus a demon
in the ocean. And a pagan symbol (Green Man) as the marker for this particular future.