<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">On Oct 24, 2011, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff@verizon.net> wrote:</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">> I note from Lexicon Urthus that "Os" is a town along Gyoll. It means mouth, opening, source.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">> The loa Legbo, who seems to ride Chelle's father as an Os, is a speaker/mouthpiece/gatekeeper.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Yes, Os = "mouth" is one of the possible meanings that can make you scratch your head. Another possibility is Os = "Yourselves / Each Other." </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">The anthem. "El Continente de los Héroes," was played at the Canam spaceport on
Chelle's return, suggesting the possibility of a spanish-language influence when NORA (presumably) chose a name for the Earth's extra-solar adversaries. Of course it could have a color basis, too, as Os = "bone-(white)."</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">None of these possibilities gains much traction because we have almost no information about the nature of the Os. The most revealing info comes from a discussion of spying in Ch 2, "I can't imagine how a human being could spy on the Os." "Electronically."</font></div></div></div></body></html>