(urth) Urth-Earth links

[David Stockhoff]

On 10/14/2011 4:08 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:
> But there is evey ridiculous allegorical parallels.  At one point, he 
> is tempted by the satan figure with almost identical verbiage.  Bow 
> before me and all this will be yours..  are you hungry?  I got some 
> food for you too.  The temptation of Christ in the wilderness being 
> replayed verbatim, healing the sick, resurrecting the dead, hastening 
> an event that almost ends the world, overtly overtly Christ like.

Thanks for that---I had thought of Typhon as Satan without knowing how 
accurate that was.

The discussion of which monarch destroyed books, repented, then 
collected them in the Citadel now becomes a little more significant to 
me, and Typhon becomes more significant. If Typhon collected all the 
books in the Citadel---and perhaps even established the Citadel itself, 
using only ships that did not escape or which were nonfunctioning---then 
he is the source of all the books of myth that Severian read. That makes 
him as important in New Sun as he is in Long Sun: everyone lives in 
Typhon's world, the world he created or the world that remained after he 
was overthrown. He is the father of both.

If Typhon is Satanic, then the Gnostic structure of Urth becomes a bit 
more concrete. He'd be the ruler of the lowest material plane to the 
Outsider's/Increate's highest immaterial plane.


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