(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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