(urth) Soldier Of The Mist: first reading (mit spoilers)

[Son of Witz]

>> I am thinking "The Black Man" favors Latro because Latro has forgotten
>> his
>> tribalism and doesn't think to treat him like an outsider based on his
>> race,
>> and also because Latro is even more of an outsider and vulnerable to
>> exploitation than he.
>
> Perhaps, but Latro gathers followers and admirers pretty quickly. We
> don't know how they met because Latro didn't write it down before he
> forgot the event.
>
>> Io was the mortal priestess of Hera seduced by Zerus and then disguised
>> as a
>> heifer, etc. Not a goddess, as she was not placed in the heavens, at
>> least
>> not until Galilean times. I don't see much of a connection with the Io
>> of
>> myth, except the girl is a sort of mascot during their trek, similar to
>> the
>> heifer's flight from Hera's stinging gadfly
>
> Well, I don't know if she was mortal. IIRC she was a nymph, a daughter
> of a river god. And she is typically associated with the Moon.


I thought I had read as much. Also, isn't there a moon named Io in our
solar system. don't planets and moons only get deity names?