(urth) Travelling North aka miscellaneous thoughts on Wolfe

[Jeff Wilson]

On 6/6/2010 11:13 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> From: "Lee Berman" <severiansola at hotmail.com>
>
>> That's not really the interpretatation I am presenting. Urth becomes
>> Ushas
>> not Earth. Urth is part of an entire universe, named Briah, which Big
>> Bangs
>> into existence, runs its course then collapses and Grand Gnabs itself
>> into
>> a single mass and out of existence. This single mass then Big Bangs
>> itself
>> into a creation of the next universe which is called Yesod.
>
> Severian's universe (which is also ours IMO) is named Yesod.
>
> That of the Hierodules is called Briah.

I'm afraid you've got that reversed from the texts. From the opening of 
URTH's Chapter XV Yesod:

"...I now saw our universe, a circle no larger than an ebon moon in the 
sky of Yesod, ..."

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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