(urth) The significance of Apu Punchau

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David Stockhoff writes:
>So as far as plot is concerned, Apu Punchau is likely to be way in OUR past. 
>It makes sense he would be the Inca sun god because of proximity, although really
>he should be ALL sun gods, which would make him very busy. (Like Santa Claus will be tonight.)
 
>And if it's true that AP has no other plot role outside the Stone Town episode,
>then he is best understood symbolically, as you say: he is the Old Sun and just
>another incarnation or emanation of the Eternal. And that's why he's in TUotNS.
>
>You'd think the various emanations would not need to "be" one another, so it is 
>geographical proximity that leads to their merging. Had Severian been landed in Persia
>and bumped into Ahura Mazda, presumably he would have caused a proximity explosion then, 
>and had he then run back to Zarathustra's time, he would be Ahura Mazda. Except the Persians
>burned or chopped up their dead, so that might not have worked out so well.
 
I think it is confusing without recognizing that Urth is not Earth. Urth is the analog of Earth 
in another earlier universe (if "early" has meaning in extra-universal context). Urth doesn't
have Incas or Persians or Jesus, just (perhaps) analogs of them. 
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