(urth) Abaia and the undines

[Jeff Wilson]

John Smith wrote:
> Isn't Abaia an alien monster from the stars? 

Possibly. Abaia is said to be one of the Great Beasts, but so was 
Aleister Crowley in his time. The library book _Lives of the Seventeen 
Megathereians_ implies that many Great Beasts (Mega * Thereians) are 
human enough to have biographies.

Of course, a man can take a beast's name for notoriety, as Typhon did. 
The Typhon that we meet in the Book is certainly a man, and certainly 
has designs on the dominating the world, but is not the irresistable 
force of nature the ancient Greek myths' Typhon was.

> This is Jonas'  story of the black beans:

I can't make more of that than maybe they were quantum black holes that 
ended up being chucked in the sun instead. Jonah is also our source for 
the Great Beasts being mountain-sized.

The boatman, however, tells a story of huge voices bespeaking through 
the river, with the female ones belonging to the huge undines, while 
their male order-giver is never seen. The male could be Abaia, or could 
be some lieutenant, perhaps.

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