(urth) Pantocrator

John Watkins john.watkins04 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 4 10:22:01 PST 2008


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> Last things first, I have no idea what the Soldier of Arete is.
> It's not in the Urth Cycle, which is the only set of Wolfe books I'm talking about.
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I do not think this a valid reason to dismisss my point.

> >I believe that the wrestling imagery comes from the word's Greek
> >origin--it referred to athletes competing in the pankration--the
> >blended boxing and wrestling that allowed combatants to use "all
> >powers" at their disposal.
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> You can clearly see here how both words come from the same root words.
> If Wolfe wanted wrestlers, he would have written Pankration, or however that translates, Pankrators or something, I don't know.
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> Let's not write off another Theological cue as a typo.
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> ~witz

I don't think it's a typo or devoid of theological meaning.  I agree
with the Lexicon's take, which is theological.


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