(urth) interview question

[Jordon Flato]

I'm intrigued by this notion you're playing out Lee.  I'm not completely on
board, but I really like the idea of the loss of purity in the human strain,
so to speak.  Especially what you bring up about Dr. Talos' play.

In terms of the role of demons, and how they relate to the Hiero's and
hierogrammates, for me the theme that resonates more with this (and I find
this particularly true with the Inhumu/Human chain), is the idea of a lower
life form being raised to a higher state by a higher form.  So, as we become
'higher' in taking the blood of Christ, so the inhumu become higher by
taking the blood of man.  However, if Man isn't acting worthy of being 'god'
to the inhumu, then the results are monstrous (see the city on Green, which
I think shows what happens when the higher species which the Inhumu are
imitating don't have their eyes trained vertically).  There is an ancient
esoteric precept which goes something like 'in order to climb the ladder,
you have to put someone on the step you just occupied'.  I think there is a
lot of this in these books, particularly with the inhumu/man story, but also
with the hierogrammates and man.  So Man greats the heirogrammates (puts
them on the step man just occupied), and then they climb up and out, not to
be seen again.  So, for the Hiero's to continue their 'progression' toward
the increate, they must also raise something to the step they occupy.  It is
perfectly symmetrical and beautiful that they would do this to the very
species (either the VERY SAME species or their correlary in
different instantiation) that raised them up.

And, this theme is repeated and explored very closely with the Disiri and
Able in Wizard Knight.

I haven't elucidated this as well as I'd like, but may try again later.

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> >Jordon Flato: Considering the Epic of Gilgamesh gives the story of
> Utnapishtim and a
> >global flood far older than the old testament, and yet very similar in
> >detail, I'd say it's something that goes beyond biblical veracity and just
> >into probable ancient history.
>
>
> Heh. Yep and great example Jordon as Gilgamesh is almost certainly an
> example of
> what the Hebrews would call Nephilim. A giant demon-spawn serving as a hero
> to
> foreigners.
>
> (anthropologically, it makes perfect sense for the Hebrews to demonize
> foreigners
> mating with their women. The jews have a long history of maintaining their
> cultural
> integrity by discouraging out-breeding)
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