(urth) Gnosticism & Wolfe (was "traveling north")

[brunians at brunians.org]

I'm waiting for someone to tell me that incest has been traced back to the
early Roman empire.

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> On 6/4/2010 12:07 PM, James Wynn wrote:
>> There's nothing inconsistent about incest between the important
>> characters of Gnosticism (the influence of Egyptian philosphy and myth
>> ensures that). Norea was said in some writings to be the wife and sister
>> of Seth, while simultaneously half of a syzygy. That said, who Norea was
>> depends on who you are reading. For others, she is the wife of Noah (a
>> hostile relationship there --like Sev and Valeria-- since she burned
>> down his ark three times). The problem with saying "Valeria must be
>> Severian's sister" is that Wolfe so happily plays with the definitions
>> of terms. In The Book of the Short Sun, the Rajan calls Jahlee (the
>> inhuma bearing, I believe, Chenille's soul) his daughter and his sister.
>> So you're not just dealing with the twisted and unintuitive world of
>> Gnosticism, but also the twisted worlds of Wolfe where little is as it
>> seems.
>
> It's not just Wolfe and Gnosticism; the regular OT has Abraham, his
> "sister" Sarah, and the Pharaoah, plus some "my wife, my sister" action
> in the Song of Songs.
>
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