(urth) traveling north

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Severian is the Conciliator.

Or am I missing something?

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>
> 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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