(urth) Claw = Fang?

[Jerry Friedman]

>On Nov 22, 2012 1:49 PM, "Jerry Friedman" <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>From: David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>
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>>>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.
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>>In fact it's rejected.
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>>"(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.)"
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>>CotC, Appendix
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> From: Bailey Swartz <bsswartz at gmail.com>
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>Hardly refuted, that is written in the context of a speculative scholar, just the same as how we speculate.


Yes, rejected but not refuted.  Even bringing something up with a negative is bringing it up.  


I know the eagle of Jove only from the myth of Ganymede, a variation--maybe a homoerotically distorted variation--on the theme of divine salvation.

Jerry Friedman