(urth) Lives of the Great Beasts

David Stockhoff dstockhoff at verizon.net
Fri Jul 2 14:16:56 PDT 2010


I tend to think of them as Lovecraftian horrors. But I like this too: 
fallen hierogrammates?

Jonathan Goodwin wrote:
> The passage that, when I typed the original message, I was sure
> referred specifically to Erebus, Abaia, etc., was not, it seems, said
> by Jonas. I have a strong memory of someone saying it, whether
> Baldanders, Dr. Talos, or someone else; but it's possible that I
> conflated it with a description of the alzabo, etc., which someone
> raised as  a possibility earlier. I was almost sure that the word
> "fauna" is in the passage I remember.  The latter two books are
> searchable on google books, but the first two, it seems, are not.
>
> I like the explanation I had, though. I imagined Erebus, Abaia, etc.,
> as being something like protoplasms--pseudopodian animalcules emitted
> by some Solaris-type planet, which the Urthian xenobiologists
> drastically mistake the nature of. I've also always found it curious
> that Typhon is dismissive of them, which would fit with the idea that
> they grew to emulate him and haven't yet achieved his power. (Typhon
> sent his children/subjects among the stars; Abaia grows his to swim
> between them, etc.)
>
> And then there's the idea that some earlier cycle of humans created
> the hierogrammates, and the megatherians would be the dark mirror,
> etc.
>
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Lane Haygood <lhaygood at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 2:17 PM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote:
>>     
>>> Nice idea. I always wondered what their motivation was, in taking an
>>> interest in Urth among all the planets and races that might be out there.
>>>       
>> Why do they need special motivation to be interested in earth, if they
>> are but one of many interstellar/cosmic beasts?  What if Erebus or
>> Abaia are on Urth by some accident instead of design, and they merely
>> seek to dominate and enslave whatever they happen to find in their
>> path?
>>
>> Or why set such paltry spatial limits on them in the first place?
>> Maybe they exist on and are conscious of many worlds simultaneously.
>>
>> Let's not go artificially limiting our cosmic horrors with human failings.
>>
>> LH
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