(urth) Inhumi in the Whorl

[DAVID STOCKHOFF]

--- On Wed, 2/9/11, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com>
> Subject: (urth) Inhumi in the Whorl
> To: urth at lists.urth.net
> Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 3:30 PM
> 
> 
> What does The Mother use Seawrack for? What do Scylla,
> Erebus, Abaia et al. use humans on 
> Urth for? 
>  
> I guess it can be pleasant to think of one's own race as
> the ultimate top of the food chain or 
> whatever, but can we be sure that is humanity's place in
> the Sun Cycle? Top Dog?    
    
One interpretation of the Urth/Whorl universe is that a ladder stretches from us to the Increate, with an "angel" of increasing purity on every rung.

Another is that a ladder stretches downward to the lowest sentient prey/host (us), with a predator (wolf?) on every rung.

It's all in your point of view. Or how you spell "pray."

Either way, the universe is a dangerous place, where sentient beings are only as [in]humane to us as we are to one another. "Man Is Wolf To Man," as the title of the autobiography of an WW2 Eastern Front survivor has it.