(urth) God/Increate in the New Sun

[António Marques]

Roy C. Lackey wrote:

> If you grant that Silk's enlightenments were supernatural and came from the
> Outsider -- known as the Increate in NS -- then Silkhorn professed an
> encounter with the Outsider when he prayed and sacrificed (bread and wine)
> at an old Neighbor altar on a hill near Blanko. See chapter 19 of IGJ,
> particularly pages 284-85. Nothing tangible happened, but the context makes
> it quite clear to me -- an unbeliever -- that this incident is evocative of
> the Christian God and was intended to be perceived as such.

I'm disturbed by the narrator's crude mention, not far away from there, 
that he had thought of sacrificing Oreb (if no other sacrifice were 
available?) on a near occasion.