(urth) Serpents and Undines

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The Turks are the other Persians.

The Turkish system is the Persian system.

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> It does make sense. The Byzantine system had no Pope, and therefore no
> division between Pope and HRE. It could also be argued that the Turkish
> sultans were truly successors to the Eastern Roman Emperor as much as
> successors to the caliphs, so the dual institution was there in effect,
> even if the ERE was not formally defined as "Christ's vicar on Earth."
>
> So perhaps the autarch should be considered as such, whether there is
> textual evidence for it or not.
>
> Jeff Wilson wrote:
>> On 8/1/2010 7:59 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>>> Perhaps. "If you believe the Autarchy is divinely ordained" is the key
>>> phrase. I don't see him as having Pope status, though maybe some do.
>>
>> Some of the figurative comments about the Autarch who this is that and
>> so forth and the lack of any particularl clerical figures suggests to
>> me that they have a more Anglican or classic Roman system, with the
>> Autarch getting to break in line to the end of the cursus honorum.
>>
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