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[David Stockhoff]

On 11/17/2011 4:22 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
>
>> James Wynn: Also, there is the whole (quite intentional) Osiris motif in which Isis
>> (Kypris) has to run around gathering parts of the god after he has been murdered.
>
>> Marc Aramini: I agree that the mapping of some myths are to be expected and found,
>> my problem with bringing in a bunch of different mythos is that Wolfe couldn't have
>> alluded to them all intentionally and still made a good story
>
>> David Stockhoff: I dunno, Marc. Osiris's murder story is a very specific, concrete
>> narrative which is plainly retold here up to a point.
>
> I concur. Moreover there is some evidence that Wolfe is intentionally shifting his
> allusion from Greco-Roman myth allusion of Urth to the sea neigbor/rival Egyptian mythology
> for the Whorl. The two(as far as I know) Greek and Egyptian mythological characters which
> share a name are Typhon and Sphinx. And Wolfe has included both in this story. 		 	   		

Good observation. And Isis.