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[Larry Miller]

I agree  with both of you.  I think its best when reading the sun
books to aply  only one  or two layers.  On my last reading of New Sun
I simply tried looking for references to Theseus and Christ for
example.

On 11/17/11, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote:
> 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.
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