(urth) Wolfe's Puzzles

James Wynn crushtv at gmail.com
Wed Jul 14 08:44:53 PDT 2010


>>> (I reject the explanation of derivation from "Pan"and "pastoral" as 
>>> a false,
>>> too easily given clue. How is Typhon like a frolicking pipe-playing 
>>> goat god?)
>>
>> Pan is the only god to die within historical time (see Plutarch's 
>> Lives), like Pas.
>
> Is there a link to "pastor"? Typhon-Pas does lead his flock off Urth. 

Well, "Typhon *drives* his flock off of Urth" is more accurate I think. 
He also drives them off the Whorl.

It is Silk (indirectly) and Patera Quetzal (directly) who *leads* the 
flock off the Whorl.

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