(urth) Serpents and Undines
Jeff Wilson
jwilson at io.com
Sun Aug 1 14:38:08 PDT 2010
On 8/1/2010 1:04 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> 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.
I doubt there is a close analog, because rather than God's
representative on earth of course the Autarch's highest calling is the
epitome, to be Urth's representative in heaven (Yesod). That influence
is probably intended to be pre-Columbian.
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