(urth) Heirax is dead

[James Wynn]

This  post is kind of a backsliding from my rejection of Silk As 
Typhon's Son in favor of Silk As Typhon.
They still could BOTH be true.

> On 11/23/2011 9:02 AM, Marc Aramini wrote:
> The best evidence for cloning is found in statements like "Pas grew himself from a seed" and the idea of a nightside and regular Silk, but the particulars of the text make it much more tenable to identify the parents if we are dealing with a son, which is, as Lemur said, what Typhon wanted to replace him.

Typhon /had/ such a son...whoever was the original Hierax. Lemur claims 
that he was "so" like his father in every way.
Suppose that Typhon, wearying of trying to produce a suitable male heir, 
had himself cloned? Suppose that Silk is a clone of that clone.

There is a scene in RttW in which is it stated that Hierax is "dead" -- 
that he has been entirely wiped from the Mainframe and
It has always struck me that the scene is intentionally suggestive.

    ************************
    [Rajan says,] "You know, just as Pig and I do, what was said
    earlier; and we're none of us children. For an augur to die before
    his Sacred Window, and particularly for him to die by a steel blade
    as sacrifices die, is a great honor. It is the death every augur
    yearns for. I don't intend to imply that it isn't wrong to kill an
    augur under those circumstances; but when an augur dies in such a
    manner, other augurs and many pious laymen must wonder whether that
    death was not arranged by Hierax, as a reward."

    Pig said, "Hierax is dead."

    Hound stared at him.

    [Rajan says] "I see. I didn't know that, though I surmised that it
    might be the case. No doubt it's for the best."

    RttW, chpt 10, Through Quadifon's Door
    ******************

The reason that I have always considered the scene suggestive is that 
Echidna and Scylla have also been wiped. Everyone directly involved in 
Pas's murder is on the lam. Why is it supposedly so shocking that Hierax 
is dead?
Well, it is significant that the body of one of the people standing 
there has also died.

Of course, the implication of this theory is that one of the mothers on 
the Aureate path is Echidna.

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