(urth) vanished people=Hieros

[James Wynn]

On 11/10/2011 2:42 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> The noose of light around the turret would then be the dawn sunshine 
> lighting the top part of a tower (before the sun rises further and 
> lights the rest).  Of course the noose image is necessary to making 
> the Sun a hunter; 

Thinking about it, I think Gerry is the more right. The noose is the sun 
rising behind the sultan's tower.
The Hunter might still be Orion, which at the time the poem is written 
is "behind" the path of the sun, still below the eastern horizon.