(urth) Short Sun Notes: Mucor

[Marc Aramini]

Also, in regards to the below, one of the girls is equated with hyacinth in the dream.  Together they certainly reach back to talk to hy, with much the same mechanism that inhuma and our narrator dream travel.  The question is, ghost of hy or hy temporarily pulled forward from a point when she was alive? 


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On Nov 25, 2012, at 4:17 PM, Andrew Mason <andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 
> Anyhow: a while ago we were discussing the Mucor/Pike/Oreb scene in
> _Long Sun_, and I raised the question whether Mucor may have the power
> to summon ghosts (as Silk later suggests) and whether she may be able
> to communicate to others her power of out-of-body travel.
> 
> As to the first: I think she has. In RTTW, at Blood’s mansion, Pig
> meets Mucor, but then enters Hyacinth’s suite and apparently meets
> Hyacinth – he smells her perfume and she kisses him. It seems quite
> likely that the beautiful woman whom Pig met earlier when exploring
> the mansion was also Hyacinth; the Rajan doesn’t realise this at the
> time, because he only knows the story of the mansion being haunted by
> an ugly woman, i.e. Mucor; but Pig insists the woman was beautiful,
> and it’s not clear why he would think of Mucor as such. So I think
> it’s likely Mucor has summoned the ghost of Hyacinth, as she earlier
> did the ghost of Pike.
> 
> As to the second; this is less clear. One possible indication is that
> it’s said Remora sent the ‘crazy’ woman away because she was driving
> other people crazy. But the main evidence has to do with Mora and Fava
> and their power of possession. It seems quite likely that Mucor is
> the source of this. It’s the same kind of possession she does, and not
> at all like the standard inhumi form of astral travel. When the Rajan
> meets them possessing Vadsig, he initially thinks that the possessor
> is Mucor, but when he says it can’t be, because ‘Mucor would be alone,
> I think’, Vadsig giggles – suggesting that Mucor is around somewhere
> and the possessors do know her. Earlier, Hide has a dream involving
> two little girls (Mora and Fava) and a wooden doll (which, on the
> basis of something the Rajan works out later, would seem to be Mucor).
> Finally on reaching Mucor’s island, the Rajan says to his companions
> ‘you’re wrong when you say that Mucor does not know you. She knows all
> of you almost as well as she knows me’, which suggests she has been,
> in some form, with the party on their travels. (Though how Mucor
> contacted Mora in the first place remains a mystery.)
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