(urth) What's So Great About Ushas?

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It's also reminiscent of the bit in the Quran where God creates Adam and
orders the angels to bow to him (all do except Satan and his people).


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> In all this crap about morality and who is fit to look down his nose at
> whom, why is it that no one has thought to mention two scenes involving
> the
> holy slaves Barbatus, Famulimus and Ossipago? In the first scene, at
> Baldanders' castle, all three Hierodules knelt to Severian. Barbatus and
> Famulimus did it again in Apu-Punchau's tomb, and Famulimus even kissed
> the
> floor before him.
>
> This was right after Severian complained of being an eidolon and wanted to
> know why Tzadkiel hadn't just brought him back to life, as Severian had
> brought Zama back to life.
>
> As Barbatus said: "What makes you think Tzadkiel wields
> such power? Famulimus and Ossipago and I are nothing
> before him, but we're not _his_ slaves; and great though he is,
> he's not the head of his race and its savior." (URTH, L, 360)
>
> Earlier, on the Ship, Famulimus had said: "_Hierodule_ is 'holy slave.'
> How
> could Hierodules be holy, did we not serve the Increate? Our master is he,
> and he only." (V, 36)
>
> Yet they knelt to Severian. I'm sure this must say something about the
> moral
> pecking order. One doesn't usually make obeisance to one's moral inferior.
>
> -Roy
>
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