(urth) do the Hierogrammates *care* about the megatherians?

[Lee Berman]

Severian is a known bisexual. 

>David Stockhoff: How do we "know" this?
 
Surely we don't. Though I think there are suggestions he is a closeted bisexual.
Perhaps with some pedophilic tendencies also. In context, I wonder if Nick wasn't 
leaning toward "hermaphrodite" or even "androgyne"..of course that sounds more like 
Tzadkiel or the old Autarch.

 
>James Wynn: Boy, Nick, did you ever come to the right counter.
 
He did. Where has Nick been hiding?
 
>Phanes is not a bad key. What is your source on him? Because the only picture I've found of 
>him is slightly reminiscent of the Zervan (which I have argued is invoked in the character Silk). 
>Only one head, though. Nor can I find where Ericapaeus could be translated Spring Wind. Nor 
>where he is associated with Thetis (and this would not be surprising in a wide variety of monomyth 
>models).
 
I found a site which answers some of James' questions. A tri-partite god rather than having three heads. 
He's wedged somewhere in the post-Chaos, pre-Uranos space with some relationship to Erebus and Nyx. 
Quite angelic-looking. And..
 
>"In addition to the name Phanes, he is also called  Dionysos, Erikepaios, Eros, Metis, Protogonos, [9] 
>Zeus, Firstborn, and Pan."
 
As a light-bringer, like Prometheus, like Lucifer, like Severian, he has been both deified and demonized.
Combining elements of Prometheus and Pan, I think he must also be associated with Azazel, the fallen angel
known for bringing the arts of warfare to men and beautification to women (like Inire/Cumaean?).
 
(to confuse things, Dionysus and Ariadne had a son named Phanos who ended up as an Argonaut)
 
Here's the site: http://www.hellenicgods.org/Phanes