(urth) Seeing the signs

[Andrew Mason]

Jeff Wilson wrote:
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>> Given my current exploration of the role of Dionysus and Great God Pan in the Sun series I was less
>> interested in the PROPHET's crudely carved staff and more interested in the goatskin he was wearing (heh).
>> Another Inire-Faunus-Inuus reference? Awfully pagan at any rate, which might be a bit odd from a straight
>> Judeo-Christian interpretation for a prophet in a play called Eschatology and Genesis
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> This doesn't strike me as particularly pagan - Moses leading the tribes
> through the desert could have looked much the same, and he did
> sympathetic magic like nailing an effigy snake to a pole to ward off
> death by snake venom.

'They went about in sheepskins and goatskins' (Hebrews 11.37). I
suspect this is a reference to something specific in the Old
Testament, but I'm not sure what.
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