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This post is kind of a backsliding from my rejection of Silk As
Typhon's Son in favor of Silk As Typhon. <br>
They still could BOTH be true.<br>
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<pre wrap="">On 11/23/2011 9:02 AM, Marc Aramini wrote:
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<pre wrap="">The best evidence for cloning is found in statements like "Pas grew himself from a seed" and the idea of a nightside and regular Silk, but the particulars of the text make it much more tenable to identify the parents if we are dealing with a son, which is, as Lemur said, what Typhon wanted to replace him.</pre>
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Typhon /had/ such a son...whoever was the original Hierax. Lemur
claims that he was "so" like his father in every way. <br>
Suppose that Typhon, wearying of trying to produce a suitable male
heir, had himself cloned? Suppose that Silk is a clone of that
clone. <br>
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There is a scene in RttW in which is it stated that Hierax is "dead"
-- that he has been entirely wiped from the Mainframe and <br>
It has always struck me that the scene is intentionally suggestive.<br>
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[Rajan says,] "You know, just as Pig and I do, what was said
earlier; and we’re none of us children. For an augur to die
before his Sacred Window, and particularly for him to die by a
steel blade as sacrifices die, is a great honor. It is the death
every augur yearns for. I don’t intend to imply that it isn’t
wrong to kill an augur under those circumstances; but when an
augur dies in such a manner, other augurs and many pious laymen
must wonder whether that death was not arranged by Hierax, as a
reward.” </p>
<p class="para1">Pig said, “Hierax is dead.” </p>
<p class="para1">Hound stared at him. </p>
<p class="para1">[Rajan says] “I see. I didn’t know that, though I
surmised that it might be the case. No doubt it’s for the best.”</p>
<p class="para1">RttW, chpt 10, Through Quadifon's Door<br>
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<p class="para1">The reason that I have always considered the scene
suggestive is that Echidna and Scylla have also been wiped.
Everyone directly involved in Pas's murder is on the lam. Why is
it supposedly so shocking that Hierax is dead? <br>
Well, it is significant that the body of one of the people
standing there has also died.<br>
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<p class="para1">Of course, the implication of this theory is that
one of the mothers on the Aureate path is Echidna.<br>
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