(urth) Standard Wolfean Riddle
António Pedro Marques
entonio at gmail.com
Mon Aug 16 07:12:12 PDT 2010
Ryan Dunn wrote (16-08-2010 15:03):
> Jesus in the Briah with Urth makes Severian something of a false figure.
Why?
If a Severian-like fellow appears here on our Earth some one hundred
thousand years from now, in what way will he be a fake Jesus?
> He is Christlike and yet nearly the opposite in Wolfe's embodiment of
> him.
Again, what's Christ-like about him?
> He saves the world from dying by purging it of countless thousands of
> people in a massive flood.
But that was the new sun, brought by Severian. Not the historical Conciliator.
> I know there is the spaceship yard turned Citadel, the image if a Moon
> man, and many other references to Earth, but this is Urth aka "similar
> but different".
Why did God not come to Urth? It's one thing to make it a little different
from Earth. Quite another to leave the local humanity without a redeemer.
> I see Severian as similar but different to Christ. And I don't see
> Christ in Severian's divine year of Briah.
...because the story takes place at least tens of thousands of years after
Christ.
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