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[DAVID STOCKHOFF]

--- On Fri, 1/14/11, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'm thinking about the Autarch in Dr. Talos' Play. He hopes
> to stop the New Sun or at least stop the
> new Creation which will populate it. Goaded by the demon,
> he orders his space ships to lay the Urth
> sere, to burn the "seed" (Meschia/Meschiane) which the
> demons failed to poison this time, this Creation.
>  
> Thus he is the anti-New Sun hoping to bathe the world in
> fire instead of water. I am thinking that a
> Flood is much more of a fertility symbol to ancient Middle
> East types, so influenced by Egyptian and
> Nile-based culture, than it might first appear to us.

Interestingly, both are possibly related to fertility---but the irrigation cultures handed down more of our mythical material than did the slash-and-burn cultures. So I agree there: better to drown and cover the world in green than to burn in satanic sterility.