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When I started this thread I was thinking about the pairing of a rose thorn and a serpent's fang ... clearly a lion's fang must also be added to the cluster.<BR>
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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:12:03 +0000<BR>From: danielottojackpetersen@gmail.com<BR>To: urth@lists.urth.net<BR>Subject: Re: (urth) Claw = Fang?<BR><BR>My point is that seraph means serpent and there's nothing in the Biblical text that I'm aware of that tries to distance that snake-like image from the angelic beings themselves. As I said before, one trained theologian knowledgeable of the original languages that I spoke too said he pictured them as winged dragons of a sort. Hence, Satan being a more or less de-winged dragon in Revelation. (And this making all serpentine/clawed images in Wolfe simultaneously resonant of both the angelic and demonic, the divine and the diabolical - appropriately, as both Jesus and Satan are imaged as a lion in the New Testament.) The Solar Cycle's soteriology reflects the N.T. in seeing salvation as a divine incarnation into the very symbols of evil (originally good in themselves) in order to redeem them back to their right place. E.g. 'claw' is a thing of tearing and death in a fallen world but becomes, in the Conciliator, a thing of healing.
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