(urth) vanished people=Hieros

[Nick Lee]

Jeff Wilson wrote:

> Pretending to be a bent, old man works, since most people don't want to
> see more. This easily affords him the old shaman disguise, since the
> covered face and the exposed physique is the complement of his Vizier
> disguise. And being purpose-made to pose as a human, by beings who can
> make human-appearing beings, eliminates a specific need to shapeshift.


Considering what the other hieros look like, he would at least need a mask.
Vertumnus doesn't necessarily shapeshift, either. In the myth of Pomona,
for example, he wears a wig. I am reminded of Agilus's ribbons. I was
thinking of Tzadkiel as the more obvious shapeshifting example.
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