(urth) Saint Catherine and the Nature of the Flood

[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

Hi, Jordon. Good to "see" you.

Jordon Flato wrote:

> If the guild of torturers practices a rite central to their mythology and
> close to the very nature of their order, a rite which involves a character
> named Catherine who's story we can easily and readily track to the real and
> actual Saint Catherine of our world, doesn't that strongly indicate the
> presence, in the distant past of Urth, of a real Christianity?  The very
> existence of saints, and of this one in with details so similar to the
> details of the story we know of Saint Catherine, seems to beg the question
> for me.  How could you have her story without having first had Christ?  What
> sorts of 'close but not identical' circumstances could have existed to give
> rise to this exceptionally similar story to our own?
>
> Is this simply a function and artifact of the translation gimmick?

I'm inclined to think so -- indeed, the translator seems to substitute
saints' names for whatever past/future terminology people of the
Commonwealth use to name themselves. (And it won't do to say that
those names are direct; look how much the names of well-known saints
have changed in common usage after just two thousand years: e.g.,
Cephas --> Petrus --> Peter.)

The concept of saints isn't intrinsically Christian, either; Buddhism
has something that we translate as "Buddhist saints."

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes