(urth) the Epitome

[mournings glory]

Iorwerth-the-ursiphile writing:

>It'd thus be appropriate for there to be Christ imagery surrounding 
>Severian, as in some ways he's an Old Testament prophetic figure, and thus 
>(in some Christian views, I think) prefigures - or in this case, maybe 
>postfigures him (off the cuff, I think Elijah or Elisha may be good 
>analogues - despite the lack of bears eating unruly children in the 
>narrative[1] - though I'll have to think about that, or possibly 
>Joshua[2]).

Do alzabos count?

Mr. Andre-Driussi argues in his _Lexicon_ and elsewhere* that the alzabo may 
be the "ghoul-bear" of Saint Anne, and young Severa, the daughter of Casdoe 
and Becan, is eaten by one.

(*Vide http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/jlaidlow/ultan/lions.htm)

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