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<blockquote cite="mid:4ECC09FF.5030309@verizon.net" type="cite">James
Wynn wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">** If it seems that Wolfe did not provide
enough clues for this, remember that this is the same thing as
Auk kidnapping Hy for sacrifice and then realizing that "she was
not the woman he was supposed to bring." There was no
explanation of _that_internal struggle either. </blockquote>
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David Stockhoff wrote:<br>
That was indeed a strange moment, seemingly at right angles to
what the surface story required.
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I should say that this event straddle's both my readings that Incus
is female** and that Hy is the inhuma, Fava, in dream-travel. <br>
Hy was not the woman he should bring, but Incus was.<br>
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**Incidentally, recalled this statement by Incus in "Calde of the
Long Sun":<br>
"I was born some _seven years_ after my youngest sibling, Femur. <br>
Conceive of my parents' _delight_, I invite you, when the passing <br>
_days, weeks, months_, and _years_ showed ever<br>
more plainly my _predilection_ for a life of _holy contemplation_,
of<br>
_worship_ and _ritual_, far from the _bothersome exigencies_ that
trouble<br>
the hours of most men."<br>
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"Femur" in Latin is <i>/feminis/</i> which also means "woman". <br>
Assuming I am correct, this is another out-of-narrative hint (there
seem to be only those for this) that Incus is female.<br>
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