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<blockquote cite="mid:4CF1C33F.9020801@sky.com" type="cite">Jane
Delawney-<br>
Not at all sure what this means but anyway ...
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Why is Typhon known as Pas on the Whorl? The noxious
kind-of-canines which roam the Whorl's ventilation / heat-exchange
system are known by the Whorl's chem soldiers (and also by
Vironese convicts consigned to the Pits) as gods, because they are
the exact reverse of what one would normally expect a domesticated
dog to be (ferocious instead of benign, unmanageable rather than
obedient, and so forth). Silk is a little leery of this
designation for obvious reasons, but uses it none the less because
there is no other name for them.
'Pas' is Serbo-Croat for 'dog'. And Typhon/Pas is in most ways the
exact reverse of what many would expect a father-god to be; he's a
'dog' rather than a 'god'.
Would not be at all unlike GW to introduce this kind of bilingual
pun ... just because. It gets all of us scratching our heads, and
is pretty amusing once one has figured it out - yet it has no
deeper significance at all, it's just Typhon (or rather GW through
'Typhon') having a laugh.
Any views?
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This is not unlikely. <br>
I have elsewhere posited that the name of the city "Viron" is
associated with the word for werewolf, "<font>vironsusi". Wolfe
would have either come across this term while researching the
werewolves in Herodotus or became interested in Herodotus for the
same reason</font> he would be researching foreign words related
to "wolf". <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://urth.org/whorlmap/viron">http://urth.org/whorlmap/viron</a><br>
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For the same reason, he be expected to look up foreign words,
especially European words, for "dog", since European grey wolves are
the ancestors of all dogs.<br>
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<font>I like this reference a lot, Jane, since I have always thought
there was too little to firm ground for Wolfe choice in this
analogy. "Pas = dog" and "god=dog" provides an etymological reason
that the dogs of the underworld are reverse of the celestial Whorl
gods (who are themselves daemons/demons, because a daemon is a
spirit and a programming function).</font><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://urth.org/whorlmap/bufe.htm">http://urth.org/whorlmap/bufe.htm</a><br>
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And additionally, of course, as we discussed before, "pas" is Koine
Greek for "all", that is Pan, and Pan is the only god to die in
historical time. Also, Zeus's died as well and his grave was honored
in Crete. Layer upon layer.<br>
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u+16b9<br>
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