(urth) traveling north

[Pedro Pereira]

I agree. The Conciliator was the "jesus" of Urth. And that already happened in the past of Urth.
 
> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 21:00:40 -0400
> From: eugene.zar at gmail.com
> To: urth at lists.urth.net
> Subject: Re: (urth) traveling north
> 
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > FWIW, my opinion is that Urth is presented as less spiritually
> > advanced than Earth, notably lacking two important earthly
> > spiritual events, The Flood and the Coming of Jesus. Thus,
> > Severian has his roles to play. The Urth we are reading about
> > is much older than our current Earth but being stunted in its
> > spiritual growth is still troubled by some of the ills which
> > plagued our pagan ancestors.
> 
> Wasn't the Conciliator the Jesus-like figure? Severian seemed to me to
> be very much non-divine. Quite the opposite, he very specifically
> comes from a very dark place, and rises to his status as savior.
> Severian's respect for the Increate and the sun itself is apparent
> early in the book, so I suspect Severian's story was meant to, in
> part, show where the spiritual path you claim is lacking leads:
> salvation.
> 
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