(urth) Typhons nature

[Marc Aramini]

--- On Sun, 10/9/11, larry miller <biglar1984 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: larry miller <biglar1984 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: (urth) Typhons nature
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Sunday, October 9, 2011, 12:54 PM
> On first read I imagined Typhon as
> human native of Urth.  But Wolfes
> naming strategum points at Typhon being of alien
> origin.  The theory
> that Blue/Green is Urth/ Lune has been repeatedly denied by
> Wolfe so
> Im going to rule that out.  The idea that Silk is a
> clone of Typhon is
> interesting though.  Does anyone have any textual
> evidence to support
> this?
> 

If you look up some older threads, one was titled "Mamelta is Kypris", and there should be one titled "the summary for the case of Silk as a clone of Typhon" or something.  The textual evidence for Silk as a son include the multiple times that it is asserted that Pas wants a suitable heir, Silk seeing two sets of parents in his vision, Silk seeing his own head on Typhon's two headed body at the end of Exodus.  The clone theory of, I believe, James Wynn, is not only that image but a mapping of some external mythologies that Auk and Silk seem to re-enact over the course of Long Sun, and the idea that Typhon wants his own face to continue throughout time, thus stealing Piaton's body.

A caveat here is that some believe Tussah to be an additional clone, but this is not substantiated by the very lengthy section in Exodus where Chenille and Silk are explicitly said to not resemble each other, while Chenille, when sunburned, resembles the old calde whose bust is in Silk's closet.  I prefer the natural son theory, but there is a disturbig scene at the end of Nightside where Silk thinks about being doubled into a "nightside" version, and there are some statements in Short Sun about the gods trying to regrow themselves from seed, in effect what Typhon did (mentioned somewhat like that in an aside).