(urth) And Now For Something Completely

David Stockhoff dstockhoff at verizon.net
Thu Nov 17 04:53:22 PST 2011


On 11/17/2011 6:39 AM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
> David Stockhoff wrote (17-11-2011 04:05):
>> On 11/16/2011 10:41 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
>>> I'm not sure about Typhon himself. He tells Severian he'll be sent
>>> tribute of women and young boys, but the implication seems sexual. The
>>> hidden painting of Pas supports this idea. My guess is that after
>>> Typhon had his fun, they were sacrificed and put on the barbecue (or
>>> tossed in the ocean?) for Echidna, Scylla and maybe others. I'd guess
>>> it was some aspect of the Outsider who reprogrammed Pas to allow
>>> animal sacrifices only on The Whorl.
>>
>> What exactly do you refer to? Humans were sacrificed on the Whorl. AFAIK
>> it was the humans who stopped doing it.
>
> Lee misremembered it as did you, no need to get angry.
> Quetzal forbade human sacrifice in Viron in an attempt to prevent 
> teophanies
> (ELS 124).

Who's angry? Anyway, that's what I said.



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