(urth) And Now For Something Completely

[Larry Miller]

yeah Im gonna go ahead and agree with Lee on this one in particular
his statement about Baldanders.

On 11/16/11, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>J Jankiewicz: Something I've always wanted to know & ask; what are the
>> "Godlings"?
>>I remember reading in wonder about such huge beings wandering around the
>> Whorl. I
>>never saw an explanation or background for them other than WTF.
>
> They are not explain (clearly) so we can't "know" what they are. But we can
> make
> some guesses.
>
> First, names are very important in all the Sun Series so we can be pretty
> sure
> that godlings are small versions of gods. Gods of the Mainframe I mean, in
> some
> way downloaded into large (and growing) human bodies.
>
> We aren't shown too much of the really big godling but his purpose seems to
> be to
> get people off The Whorl and onto the planet(s). In an interview, Wolfe was
> asked
> if Pig was a godling and he snapped an answer to  the effect of, "of course,
> it should
> be obvious" It isn't obvious, of course. But Wolfe thinks we should not
> hestate to jump
> to such conclusions. A clue on how to read him.
>
> So we have to garner a lot of what we know about godlings from Pig. Pig's
> name and
> blindness would seem to reflect a combination (reshuffling of cards?) of two
> Mainframe gods, Phaea and Tartarus.
>
> We aren't given much to understand the origin or "birth" of godlings. But
> Baldanders
> from BotNS might be a good prototype to study.  Gigantic, seabound,
> leviathan
> monsters like Abaia, The Mother and Great Scylla might be showing us what
> godlings
> will become.
>
> (there is a giant fish in Scylla's lake but generlly, The Whorl would not
> seem to have
> enough water to allow these gods to grow to their full size. The Scylla fish
> eating
> Mamelta might reflect some internal problems inherent in the family of
> Typhon/Pas.) 		 	   		
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