(urth) cynocephalus (was: Re: Boatman as Inire)

Ryan Dunn ryan at liftingfaces.com
Sun Aug 8 17:52:35 PDT 2010


On Aug 8, 2010, at 8:36 PM, Jane Delawney wrote:

> Undoubtedly ... re-reading and noticed something I hadn't noticed for a while, which is that the monkey-like thing on Tzadkiel's Ship is not the first monkey-like thing Sev has come across (and I am not referring here to the shaman of bk. 4) - while Sev lies recovering from the avern-wound in the soldiers' lazaret toward the end of 'Shadow', he sees a 'cynocephalus' (ape with a dog's head) running across the floor. He thinks he's dreaming or delirious - but he then goes on to see the same creature when he knows he's in his right mind (in so far as he ever is :) ).


There's also this...

"Birds unknown to me called overhead, and once a monkey who might, save for his four hands, have been a wizened, red-bearded man in fur, spied on me from a fork as high as a spire."
(CotC, Chap. 25, "The Attack on the Hierodules")


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