(urth) planetary problems

[Jeff Wilson]

On 12/28/2010 1:30 AM, Marc Aramini wrote:
> Now, why is Apheta's face specifically linked to Lune? If it's a portal,
> then we DO have movement from Yesod directly onto Lune (is Lune a portal
> in this scheme?

One reason may be that after Sev associates the visually similar moon 
with portals to Yesod, and from Yesod. Urth Chapter XV: "Then we were 
through and seemed suspended in azure light; behind us, where once I had 
seen the corona lucis of the young suns, I now saw our universe, a 
circle no larger than an ebon moon in the sky of Yesod, a moon that soon 
shrank to a solitary mote, then vanished."



> Apheta's face
> mentioned twice on the moon and the Hieros ability to create suns and
> planets MUST be important, I just don't understand the nature of those
> planets.

The Yesodis' creations are mighty, but are not true planets and stars. 
For example, the ocean covers a huge Kirbyesque machine larger than a 
terrestrial planet, but it has less gravity than Urth due to the space 
inside for access by the Yesodis and merely gigantic beetle-like 
subordinate mechanisms. There's also no tide, despite a normal-looking 
sun, so whatever that is, it has even less mass than Lune or must be 
incredibly more distant than a normal star.

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