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[Son of Witz]

On Dec 15, 2010, at 4:14 AM, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:

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>> Lee Berman- But The Green Man is a significant alternate name for the pagan horned god, Great God Pan, 
>> etc. Is Wolfe suggesting this is the ultimate and true, unified god of Briah?
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>> Matthew Weber- I really can't see how the text is suggesting such a thing any more than it's suggesting 
>> that Jonas is the ultimate and true, unified god of Briah. Happy to reconsider if I'm missing something, 
>> of course.
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> What I mean is that after the massive plot contortions and planetary upheavals, at the end of the story on
> Ushas we are not left with much of anything that suggests a Christian outcome. No monotheism, no Savior.  
> Instead we have 4 gods derived from human sources, two male, two female, two light, two dark. Plus a demon 
> in the ocean. And a pagan symbol (Green Man) as the marker for this particular future.
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The map is not the territory. The inhabitants' cosmology is a map. It may not accuratley reflect their world.