(urth) Father Inire: teratoid

[DAVID STOCKHOFF]

That's a good analysis of the mirror metaphor. Yes, as the moon reflects the sun, so too the minor gods reflect the Increate. Well done.
And of course the scraps (glimpses of knowledge without understanding?) result in horrors the way Sauron's messing with elves yielded orcs.

--- On Tue, 12/14/10, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com>
Subject: (urth) Father Inire: teratoid
To: urth at lists.urth.net
Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 3:15 PM



As such, a nasty Urth is ruled by an essentially evil, materialistic demiurge who has created and who controls
everything. (some pagans posit that this demiurge was Jahweh, the genocidal, jealous god of the Old Testament.)
This demiurge controls everything with various agents in various shapes and forms from the noble Ultan to the
demonic Hethor. But all are aspects of the demiurge. Important to notice that his mirrors produce heavenly images, 
proving that he isn't really all bad. The central avatar of this being in our story is, of course, Father Inire.

Conversely, gnostic heaven is ruled by an essentially good, spiritual archangel, Tzadkiel who mostly stays above the 
fray (obeying the Prime Directive, heh) but not entirely. Both Yesod and The Ship (while travelling) exist outside 
Urth and the material universe and so may be considered as spiritual realms. Important to notice that mirror sails 
on the ship produce monsters leading to bloody, deadly conflict on the Ship and Yesod, proving that the heavenly 
archangel isn't really all good.   (Hethor's mirrors produce monsters because they are sail scraps).
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