(urth) the prime calcula/ his citadel and other quotes

[Marc Aramini]

Looking for quotes about cosmology in Long Sun last night, saw some stuff that I thought was interesting.

In Epiphany of the Long Sun,  Echidna possesses Maytera, a chem, confuses Villus a young boy, for Auk, and says, when confronted about possessing chems:
"They are easier what mean these numbers? Why should we let you?  My husband ...." 
"Did Pas possess someone who died?"
Her head swiveled toward the Sacred Window.  "the prime calcula ... His citadel." (Epiphany p 87 (calde chapter 3)"

Her disjointed response is confusing to some degree.  Is she referring to the numbers inside Maytera's head, or the previous set of mysterious numbers on the seal of Pas underground after which Silk found Mamelta?  Does those numbers signify Pas' "citadel" is the sealed off section where those sleepers, including Mamelta, were?  Is the seal of Pas the prime cacula or just the images in the window? When she awakes Mamelta's first words are We will be lovers, or something to that affect.


Also, Mucor says of Mamelta when she possesses her "I know her.  She likes me."  Later, Silk says '"It took me a while to identify the sensation," he confided to Mamelta,"but I placed it eventually.  It was the feeling I'd had as a small boy when my mother had been holding me and put me down."  He paused, musing.' ( Litany, p 469)  Once again he gets the feeling of being held by mother near Mamelta.  Also, when he asks her name, Silk doesn't believe her: "Mamelta." He looked at her curiously. "is that your name?' It was one that he had never heard. "I think so.  I can't ...." "remember?" he suggested gently'."  mamelta's memory is a bit unreliable, as Rigoglio/Roger says the cargo underwent memory alterations as well.

Is that sealed section with weird numbers the prime calcula on Pas' Whorl-ly citadel?  Also, later someone in conversation with Kypris says, well, Pas would not kill you and she just kind of pauses noncomitally and changes the subject, as if he might abandon her.

Also, later on the gondola thinking about killing himself Silk thinks how one of his father's was Chenille's, and his explanation to Horn indicates that they are step-siblings in a way, since he resembles her not at all.  He brings up Mamelta and what she showed him underground ( p 662 Epiphany)
and also says that something he experienced in underground leads him to believe he knows how he came to be.


Also, something creepy in the interaction between Villus and Echidna, where she confuses him for Auk and then later Villus shows concern for his mother at the very end of Exodus from the Long Sun.

Just some general observations that reinforced my feelings that the blue-eyes and dark hair of Mamelta are a bit more than a coincidence.