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

[David Stockhoff]

Yes, except there are four parts to the prayer.

Parts 2 and 3 do seem sufficiently similar to be one Person, however, 
according to the Wolfean principle of mythic approximation.

On 5/17/2011 4:46 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:11 PM, James Wynn<crushtv at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> The caloyer says in _Claw_ in his prayer to the Increate :
>>
>> "You, the hero who will destroy the black worm that devours the sun; you for
>> whom the sky parts as a curtain; you whose breath shall wither vast Erebus,
>> Abaia, and Scylla who wallow beneath the wave; you that equally live in the
>> shell of the smallest seed in the farthest forest, the seed that hath rolled
>> into the dark where no man sees."
>> Although it is reasonable to associate "the hero" with Severian, it is hard
>> to imagine that he lives in the "smallest seed in the farthest forest." He's
>> talking about the Increate there.
> Actually, I believe this prayer is Trinitarian -- noting that there
> are three parts to it.
>
> The "hero" is indeed Severian, standing in for the Second Person
>
> The one whose breath will wither etc. is the First Person, the God of
> the Old Testament associated (at least by Christians) with divine
> wrath.
>
> And the one who lives in the smallest seed is the Third Person, the
> Holy Spirit, whose in-dwelling is the basis of all life.
>
> At least that's how I read it.


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