(urth) Abaia and the undines

[Matthew Malthouse]

At 15:14 10/12/2008, you wrote:
>Otherwise, I have not found any correspondence of these names with 
>one another or any single mythos in any way, except that the names 
>Erebus and Arioch may have Semitic roots, and that Erebus and Scylla 
>are Homeric.


Arioch is indeed Hebrew meaning fierce lion and as a  demon appeared 
in works as diverse (or similar?) as Paradise Lost and Morcock's Elric et al.

Erebus son of Chaos was shadow.  Also a part of or alternate name for 
all of Hades.  The word has proto-indo-european roots and may be 
cognate the Hebrew erebh, sunset.

Scylla, daughter of Nissus king of Megara.  Or (more likely):  one of 
the monster guardians the straits of Messina, either 6 headed or a 
single human head with 4 dogs' heads.


Thematically all these three are bad ends for men - or mankind.

So even if their motives are complex and their actions mot entirely 
explicable I think the name are enough to tell us that Wolfe means us 
to understand that This Is Not A Good Idea.

Matthew


Si non confectus, non reficiat