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

[António Pedro Marques]

No dia 23/05/2011, às 03:40, António Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com> escreveu:

> No dia 22/05/2011, às 20:55, Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> escreveu:
>
>> I have to say there is another
>> connection that people have stressed: Severian calls Abaia a "great beast",
>> "megatherians" means entities connected to the great beast(s) somehow, and
>> Father Inire says the Ascians are the "slaves of Abaia".  That makes it
>> considerably more likely that the two 17s are connected
>
> The part where that argument doesn't work is where there is no evidence at all that the great beasts are 17, and in fact that looks like an impossibly large number for us to only hear about two.

I misread you, youre not saying the great beasts are 17. So I'll advance the 
possibility that there were once 17 personalities, simultaneously or not, 
whom the ascians came to revere and the commonwealthians to despise. The 
ascians may call them the g17, or the group may have purposely named itself 
after the 17.