(urth) lameness

[David Stockhoff]

On 1/14/2011 6:33 PM, Jane Delawney wrote:
> He presents a Jesus who has been born to be the dying-and-rising Corn 
> King, husband of the White Goddess, but who rejects his role, and even 
> after his ritual combat and consequent lameness refuses to fulfill 
> that role by consummating his predestined marriage to the Goddess's 
> incarnation on earth, Mary Magdalene.
"Corn" meaning "grain" but perfectly extendable to "maize" .... that 
grain with yellow silk.
>
> ... (I well remember on reading UoTNS for the first time that I 
> thought I knew exactly why Sev keeps referring to 'poor Valeria', 
> namely that I assumed he had always been impotent with her as he never 
> had been with other women; and then I remember my dismay on re-reading 
> the work from the beginning to find that there was absolutely no 
> support for this assumption in the text! Still not sure where that 
> came from.).
I had the very same thought my very first time. We both must have read 
it somewhere else---is it a classic Victorian indirection?
> The lameness theme is stressed too much to be merely accidental, 
> however. ....
>
> I've no idea what (if anything) all of this means in terms of GW's 
> thinking, but at the least it does appear to be relevant in terms of 
> the Sun Cycle's multitudinous lamed messiah / Fisher King references.
I guess if you have a wasteland of any kind, there must be a lame king. 
And Urth is such, else why Conciliate? The Whorl too is broken/has 
broken with its people.


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