(urth) Silk corrupted?

[brunians at brunians.org]

The idea that people (or some people) are in some way related to stars is
very, very old.

It appears in Judaism, Hinduism and various American Indian religions.



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> violence?
> that may be overstepping.  any great work is larger than it's author's
> intention.  But I'm sympathetic with your feeling, despite having to poke
> at it a bit.
>
> What I don't understand, all Christ arguments aside, is "How does a star
> have the consciousness of Severian? How does a star resurrect humans? How
> does a star steer time?
>
> just asking.
> ~witz
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Dan'l Danehy-Oakes [mailto:danldo at gmail.com]
>>Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 02:46 PM
>>To: 'The Urth Mailing List'
>>Subject: Re: (urth) Silk corrupted?
>>
>>On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:40 PM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I concede, of course, that the Bible takes precedence as a literary
>>> work in
>>> both stature and history, so Severian and Jesus can never really be
>>> coequals. But please let's dispense with the notion---the
>>> assumption---that
>>> there can only be a single Christ in all of human literature. It's an
>>> indefensible position.
>>
>>Agreed. Writers are free to create as many Christs as they choose, and
>>to make them theoanthropoi, divine, etc.
>>
>>What is key here is that we are interpreting a work by a writer who
>>takes the position that Jesus was a unique historical figure, the sole
>>Theoanthropos and Redeemer, an event which will not and *can* not
>>be repeated. This is *Wolfe's* position, and to interpret his work in
>>a way that violates this position is to do that work a violence which
>>I cannot condone.
>>
>>--
>>Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, writer, trainer, bon vivant
>>-----
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