<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Well, whoever the "fortunate man ... possessed by the Outsider" was, he must not have been crucified. Not very fortunate, that.<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 12/15/10, Lee Berman <i><severiansola@hotmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Lee Berman <severiansola@hotmail.com><br>Subject: (urth) christ, already<br>To: urth@lists.urth.net<br>Date: Wednesday, December 15, 2010, 3:09 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail"><br><br>>Dan'l D. Oakes: The Outsider is the Christian God, to be sure<br> <br>I don't know enough to debate yea or nay on this. But RttW seems to explicitly define<br>The Outsider as The God of Wine, son of Thyone. i.e. a version of Dionysus. I think there<br>are some who here have knowledge which suggests there is religious justification
for considering<br>Dionysus as a version or precursor of Christ.<br> <br>>the stories analogous to those of Jesus are attributed to "a fortunate man whom<br>>the Outsider had both enlightened and possessed" -- an Jesus-analogue in the Briahtic Universe.<br> <br>I think it was Andrew who recently pointed out the Long Sun story of a legendary figure who got<br>busy with moneychangers in a temple.<br> <br>In one interview, Gene Wolfe quips that since Jesus used a scourge during that temple episode, even <br>he knows what it is to be a torturer.<br> <br>Some interesting conjoining of concepts here. I'm interested how y'all might sort them out.<br> <br> <br> <br>_______________________________________________<br>Urth Mailing List<br>To post, write <a ymailto="mailto:urth@urth.net"
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