(urth) Hierogrammates, Briah and Yesod

[António Pedro Marques]

Ryan Dunn wrote:
>
> On Aug 13, 2010, at 12:20 PM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
>
>>> Another question is, when Severian activates the White Fountain, is
>>> he imploding Briah, and birthing Post-Briah?
>>>
>>> If so, I guess Urth becomes Rth or Yrth or something.
>>
>> At certain points it isn't clear to me why Briah should be equated with
>> Urth. We're told there's hoomins out there in other planets.
>
> Well Briah and Urth are connected, in the text. If what you mean is, Urth
> isn't the only place to hold hoomins in Briah, then okay, but the text
> implies Urth was the center, mecca, capital, empire of the Universe, in
> the Universe before Briah, the one that imploded, the one that the
> Hierogrammates were created in and escaped from.
>
> And coupling that with a twinning description of a divine year, when a
> Universe died and is reborn slightly more advanced, then I think you have
> to connote the hoomins who made the Hierogrammates with the hoomins who
> occupy Urth.
>
> IMO anyway.

I think so too, but I don't know that I could defend it.