(urth) vanished people=Hieros

[Jeff Wilson]

On 11/6/2011 5:01 PM, Nick Lee wrote:
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>     When do the Green Man or Inire display their shape-changing ability? Are
>     they attested to do so in the story somewhere?
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> I should have been clearer. It is Vertumnus who is known as a
> shapechanger, being the god of seasons and change.
> Inire-the-shapechanger is an old Borski theory. Certainly Inire must
> have some method of disguise to pass as human, even a short,
> monkey-faced one.

Pretending to be a bent, old man works, since most people don't want to 
see more. This easily affords him the old shaman disguise, since the 
covered face and the exposed physique is the complement of his Vizier 
disguise. And being purpose-made to pose as a human, by beings who can 
make human-appearing beings, eliminates a specific need to shapeshift.


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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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