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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Lee Berman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:severiansola@hotmail.com">severiansola@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote"><br>In my last post under Patera Inire (which has a typo- should start- "I don't agree")<br>
I mention an allegorical answer I think best for explaining how an ocean-bound<br>creature like Abaia could be destroyed by a flood.<br><br></blockquote>
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<div>I think there are a couple of textual possibilities, actually. From Eschatology and Genesis:</div>
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<div>First Demon: The continents themselves are old as raddled women, long since stripped of beauty and fertility. The New Sun comes--</div>
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<div> Autarch: I know!</div>
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<div> First Demon: --and he will send them crashing into the sea like foundered ships.</div>
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<div> Second Demon: And from the sea lift new--glittering with gold, silver, iron, and copper.</div>
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<div>So Abaia could easy have been crushed by a foundered continent or mountain, or trapped on a new continent as it rises from the sea and then, assuming he could survive the upheaval itself, collapsed under his own weight. I think the latter is more probable, simply because we're told in the text that Abaia and his kind can't survive outside of water long (perhaps Baldanders is the reference, I can't recall) and we actually see Juturna dying in this manner.</div>
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">But for those who don't see Judeo-Christianity in this story, I will offer a more<br>textual explanation. Perhaps Abaia doesn't really live in the ocean. Abaia is the<br>
name for a magical *freshwater* eel in Melanesian mythology. So perhaps<br>a flood could kill off Abaia simply via contact with salt water.<br><br>Abaia's most likely freshwater home would surely be Lake Diuturna. We have the<br>
similarity of the name to Juturna, the daughter-bride of Abaia. We have (perhaps<br>aspiring megatherian) Baldanders choosing to live near and eventually under the<br>waters of this lake. The Lake/Island people have their belief in a fish god<br>
beneath the waters. But perhaps the best evidence for the presence of Abaia is<br>the Lake/Shore people's town which is named "Murene". This Latin derived, Germanic<br>word basically means "moray eel" (which does include freshwater versions).<br>
<br><br>(sorry if this idea had been posted before. If so I hadn't seen it)<br>
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