(urth) the Epitome
mournings glory
mourningsglory at hotmail.com
Wed Apr 6 11:08:00 PDT 2005
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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