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Sergei SOLOVIEV
soloviev at irit.fr
Thu Nov 3 12:32:16 PDT 2011
I mostly agree with the idea, but what human sacrifice by Baldanders do
you mean?
For Baldanders, it is scientific research, even if he takes some humans
to open
and may forget them on the operation table (like the poor
girl in the tower).
Sergei Soloviev
Lee Berman wrote:
>> Jerry Friedman: But I don't think we can say Lake Diuturna /is/
>> Lake Titicaca, or say, "At this point Severian is near a place where children were
>> ritually exposed, which tells us something about what he encountered here."
>>
>
> Hm. I'm not so quick to dismiss. The Inca rulers of the area were, like most other
> southern Native American groups, pretty damn brutal (we see the precursor to it with
> Apu Punchau's tribe). Pia's slavery and Baldanders' human sacrifices might be
> intended as a reflection of the pre-Christian culture of the area (which continues on
> to this day? http://www.religionnewsblog.com/5970/peru-police-probe-possible-human-sacrifice
>
> (Did anyone see Apocalypto? I see it as Mel Gibson's answer to the anti-Christopher Columbus
> movement and the Sun Series may have similar intent. The hours of Mayan barbarity and cruelty
> we are drenched in is enough to make the sight of Christian conquistador ships at the end
> cause a sigh of relief in the most steadfast atheist, progressive/liberal)
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