<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Lee Berman <severiansola@hotmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> urth@urth.net <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, March 16, 2012 10:15 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> (urth) Lupiverse(es)<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <br>For some reason the example of Abaia comes to mind. In earlier readings I didn't <br>know mythological Abaia was an eel. So I didn't know he was meant to be associated<br>with Murene, the town on the shores of Lake Diuturna.
Knowing that suggests that <br>the Baldanders character is supposed to be associated with both Juturna and Abaia. <br>And knowing the association with these two fishy characters might explain his <br>underwater breathing and the scars(?) on his neck. But who (pre-internet) knew<br>who/what Abaia was?<br> <br>And there are so many other examples where really esoteric knowledge like that is <br>required to piece the puzzles together. Juripari, Fomalhaut, Ouroboros and <br>Matthew 17:27 all relate to fish mouths. How do these relate to each other (and<br>Abaia and Thelxiepeia and Mamelta and The Mother)? I guess there probably remains<br>mysteries to solve. <br><br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------<br>Incidentally, juruparis are also called Earth Eaters.<br><br>On a tangent, has anyone seen this link? It's an
amusing interpretation of BNS as a set of tropes:<br><br>http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/BookOfTheNewSun?from=Main.BookOfTheNewSun<br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>