<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <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"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <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" <urth@urth.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, May 8, 2013 9:15 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Subject:</span></b> (urth) The Cumaean<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>Ignoring earthly and Biblical analogy for now, perhaps the Fish's Mouth theme and the<br>snakey-fish "Abaia" is a metaphor for the great beast(s) which have swallowed Urth whole <br>and which now lives on within the dark belly of the beast. Perhaps Jonas (Jonah?) was named<br>for one who escaped that belly.<br><br>Moreover, I had previously wondered how Severian bringing a flood could vanquish ocean-<br>dwelling giant creatures. But if those creatures are understood in terms of dark-loving, <br>cave-dwelling, murky depth creatures such as eels, lampreys and jurupari, I can see how<br>restoring the sun might do it. There is much description of golden light flooding the <br>ocean as Severian swims through it after the New Sun has arrived.
<br>_______________________________________________<br><br><br>How did we miss this? Not only is the New Sun already well established as a big deal, the Old Sun must leave the ocean depths even darker than usual, and so the New Sun would bring more light there as well.<br></div> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>