(urth) Ultan's Library Shadows of the New Sun Interviews
David Stockhoff
dstockhoff at verizon.net
Wed Jun 19 16:02:37 PDT 2013
On 6/19/2013 4:55 PM, Andrew Mason wrote:
> Lee Berman wrote:
>
>
> (p.s. Heh, be careful! In one interview, Gene Wolfe was explicit
> in specifying
> Aphrodite as the sex goddess, not the love goddess, along with
> Ares as a soldier
> god rather than the god of war. I assume that has significance to
> his work.)
>
>
> True: yet the Whorl goddess Kypris, whose name derives from a title of
> Aphrodite, is certainly a love goddess and not just a sex goddess.
> (She inspires Mint, for instance, with love of the city.) I would
> guess this is an example of the Wolfean theme of people growing into
> their assigned roles; if enough people see her as a love goddess, that
> is what she will be.
>
Yes, and sex-to-love has plain implications in terms of personal as well
as cultural maturity, not to mention closeness-to-God.
More information about the Urth
mailing list