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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Dave Tallman - Does this mean we won't see your Hyacinth/Fava theory this weekend after all? </div></pre>
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Tell you what. Now I'm feeling a little guilty. I don't want to play
peek-a-boo. I'll give the synopsis without the textual proofs and
give the rest later. Actually, others will probably post most them
to argue the theory down.<br>
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I believe Pike's Ghost is the Rajan. I think the Rajan's presence in
the grandmother's in "In Green's Jungles", the screwy time-line from
Horn leaving Lizard Island until his return, and the ages of Sinew's
sons on Green, is sufficient proof that dream-travel can involve
Time-travel. Also, the presence of the flying Oreb when Silk's Oreb
had an injured wing down stairs and asserted anyway that he had not
been upstairs. Unless one credits that Pike got his own night chough
in Mainframe or Heaven, it was the Rajan. I suspect he's probably
also Silver Silk _and_ , maybe, he was Patera Pike. Maybe.
Otherwise, we get into clone theories.<br>
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I think that after the end of "Return To the Whorl", the Rajan went
back to get Fava in dreamland where he left her when her body died.
Then he takes her back in Time to Viron so everything can happen as
he remembers it from Silk's memory. There, Fava --who, in
dream-travel looks like a teenage girl-- has some breast
augmentation (as Chenille implies) and becomes Hyacinth. As you have
already pointed out, favas and hyacinths are both beans. The Romans
believed beans contained the souls of the dead. <br>
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Anyway, I think the Long Sun/Short Sun should properly be read as a
single 7 volume novel. Asking what happened to the Rajan went they
went to the Whorl is not understanding that Wolfe already told us
what happened to him.<br>
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I further believe that Hyacinth's exceptional light weight -- to
which the text refers TWICE-- is evidence that she is a being in
dream-travel (the Rajan reported this as a symptom when he was
climbing the mesa). Also, Hyacinth's promiscuity is pretty much the
way inhuma behave when they get their human bodies. It's in "their
reptilian nature". <br>
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I think the "taint" that Silk spoke of occurring from sex with
Hyacinth refers to her actually being an inhuma -- which he learned
during his wedding night enlightenment. And I think that is why Silk
was so despondent on the floater. In RttW, when Jahlee comes on to
Horn's son while in dream-travel, the Rajan tells him that although
she is a true human woman, relations between the two of them would
be wrong. I also think Hy being an inhuma is the what Silk meant
when he said that little Hy defeating the guard on the floater was
"one more lie". <br>
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I think Hyacinth's "father" at the Juzgada was the Rajan, fulfilling
the dream of Silk's mother that Silk go to work there (Fava was the
first inhumi to called him her father). <br>
I think the belief that Hyacinth had siblings is based on a
misreading of what Chenille says (it was the family she went to work
for that had "a lot of sprats". <br>
I think the mother Hy met in mainframe was the mother of the girl
that FAVA's mother fed on. She was her spiritual mother. I believe
the green umbrella and two gowns that Hy says her mother (this time
her inhuma mother) gave her is a red herring. The green umbrella
(the one she can't remember what happened to it) was the planet
Green in Blue's sky. And the two gowns were her inhumi body and her
dream-travel soul. I don't know if Fava has forgotten her origin
(until faced with the prospect of returning to Green) or if she is
covering up. <br>
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I believe the used cameo ring she bought with the picture of the
older woman --because the seller said the image looked like her--
was the woman who gave her her soul (as a teenage girl). I strongly
suspect that woman was Silk's birth-mother. But Orpine is on the
table too.<br>
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Only quotation I'll offer here:<br>
"The Outsider was the dancing man on a toy, and the water the<br>
polished toy-top on which he danced with Kypris, who was Hyacinth<br>
and Mother, too. _First romance_, sang the Outsider with the music<br>
box. _First romance_."<br>
~ Calde of the Long Sun, Ch VII.<br>
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Of course, "Mother" could be another red herring. It could imply the
Mother on Blue. I don't know. It gets messy there.<br>
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I believe there are at least two thematic purposes that Wolfe is
riffing on with Hyacinth and Silk. <br>
For the first, I offer this: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.urth.org/whorlmap/worm.htm">http://www.urth.org/whorlmap/worm.htm</a>
"The Wolfe and the Laidley Worm".<br>
-- which is something I wrote years ago when I was at the time I was
debating the "Hy is a male chem" theory.<br>
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The second is that Silk/Rajan & Hyacinth/Fava is a retelling of
the gnostic story of Simon Magus and Helena.<br>
The story goes like this. Ennoia was a female half of the Cosmos.
She was the first thought of Nous, whom she named "The Father". She
became separated from The Father and descended through the Aeons to
the Third World, eventually becoming trapped in a human body. It was
she who brought the "Spirit" of the Father into the world so he
could rule it. <br>
Now Simon Magus was revered The Father in the incarnation of The
Son. One day, in Tyre, Simon saw a prostitute, Helena, on the roof
of a brothel. He recognized her as the incarnation of Ennoia, and
their marriage began the redemption of the world. The story of
Helena is related in some way to the myths of Sophia.<br>
<br>
A nice overview of Simon Magus here:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://hermetic.com/sabazius/simon.htm">http://hermetic.com/sabazius/simon.htm</a><br>
Here you will also see other little bits of the Long Sun/Short Sun
story poking out like the tops of the heads of friends seen in a
milling crowd.<br>
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