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On 10/24/2011 6:45 PM, Stephen Hoy wrote:
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">On Oct 24, 2011,
David Stockhoff <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net"><dstockhoff@verizon.net></a> 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>
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<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></div>
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Whoa. nice!<br>
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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>
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Well, since the future world is in part a fulfillment of paranoid
fantasies ....<br>
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<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><br>
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Yeah, there's not much to go on. But I do think the color
associations are key. As I noted way back, a certain group of loa,
including Legba, are white rather than other colors. Perhaps the Os
have an empire of sentient-riders, i.e., they all ride other beings.<br>
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