(urth) Patera Inire

brunians at brunians.org brunians at brunians.org
Sun Jul 18 15:37:07 PDT 2010


Why not?

This is the way things go in the real World.

In India it is exprressed a different way: the third member of the Indian
trinity is the Lord of Destruction.

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> On 7/18/2010 6:15 AM, John Watkins wrote:
>> I know I keep pointing this out, but I think the correct resolution of
>> this question in the New Sun universe and in Wolfe general is that
>> insofar as a false religion achieves its ends it does so because it has
>> been hijacked by the true religion.
>
> Yes, that's what I was thinking, which can coexist with usual SF trope
> of the Fake Religion As a Secular Tool (see Dune, Foundation, The Day
> After Tomorrow, Cat's Cradle) even as it subverts it.
>
> Pas and the Outsider both want to get the people of the Whorl where they
> are going, Inire and the Increate both want to deliver the Urth and the
> Human Race back into their natural condition under a healthy sun - thus
> the bad serves good, and the false proves faithful to the higher truth,
> like Severian says over and over again.
>
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