<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Oh, and for my interpretation to work, Pleistorus and Ares have to share this realization of disgust at murder and war, for there is one poem where it says </DIV>
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<DIV>(I paraphrase) "and Ares quits the spear proud throng"</DIV>
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<DIV>I think that is what is going on in these books, War is learning compassion and love to be communicated to Ahura Mazda so that he can reconcile creation to a Christian milieu of (ideally) love and forgiveness away from the wrath of the old testament God.</DIV>
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<DIV>I don't know anything about Nethack, got to look it up. heh heh.</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Sun, 2/13/11, Adam Thornton <I><adam@io.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV>On Feb 13, 2011, at 4:02 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT class=yiv1451416343Apple-style-span color=#000000><BR></FONT>I don't know, but it IS kind of clear that Pleistorus is a god of battle, possibly the Thrakian version of Ares, and I think the text makes it a better case that it is Pleistorus who is missing and is Ahura Mazda, so if pressed I would say, Latro is Pleistorus, because I am not sure if in the Soldier books Ares and Plesitorus are distinct at all.<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>
<DIV>Dude, it *is* Nethack.</DIV>
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<DIV>"Who do you think you are, War?"</DIV>
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