(urth) Claw = Fang?

[David Stockhoff]

I think it's meant along the lines of a classic cultic double meaning: 
one esoteric (Jove's eagle) and one esoteric (the clawed serpent). These 
two meanings balance perfectly, since one is associated with a 
civic/daylight religion and the other with a mysterious/gnostic, even 
satanic one.

Rejecting one points to the other but also back to itself.

On 11/22/2012 11:51 PM, Bailey Swartz wrote:
>
> Hardly refuted, that is written in the context of a speculative 
> scholar, just the same as how we speculate.
>
> On Nov 22, 2012 1:49 PM, "Jerry Friedman" <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>     From: David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net
>     <mailto:dstockhoff at verizon.net>>
>     >
>     Very well thought out! If the thorn is the key to the meaning of
>     the Claw, and fangs do seem to occupy a space adjacent to thorns,
>     they are therefore a link to the Claw.
>     >
>     >It occurs to me that the Claw is not associated with any animal,
>     even by speculation. One thinks of a bird, especially a bird of
>     prey, but this is not supported at all.
>     ...
>
>     In fact it's rejected.
>
>     "(Because the Conciliator is given a Claw, one is tempted to
>     make the easy association of the eagle of Jove with the sun; it is
>     perhaps too pat.)"
>
>     CotC, Appendix
>
>     Jerry Friedman
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