(urth) Cumaean???
Matthew King
automatthew at gmail.com
Fri Dec 14 13:44:29 PST 2007
On Dec 14, 2007, at 10:57 AM, Todd wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 09:46 -0600, Eric Ortlund wrote:
>> 3) When Merryn is telling Severian that all time exists, the Cumaean
>> tells them that, although Apu Punchau (=New Sun, right?) lived ages
>> before her, there is a "mind" which existed in his time and which
>> still
>> exists . . . on the Red Star called the Fish's Mouth. What the
>> heck is
>> going on here? Which star is this, and which mind? Is this
>> referring
>> to Yesod?
>
> The star is likely Fomalhaut, or "mouth of the whale" is a bright
> white
> star in the constellation of Pisces.
Reminiscent of the "sign of the belly of the whale" line in On Blue's
Waters, which is itself a reference to the "sign of Jonah" line in
Matthew 12.
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