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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 22/08/2014 08:10,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:marcobadie@katamail.com">marcobadie@katamail.com</a> wrote:<br>
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<div><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size:
13px;">My third post at the Urth list.</span></div>
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<div>Thanks you, Gerry Quinn and Lee, for your comments and
observations at my first posts.</div>
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<div>My point: the double resurrection in Chapter I of
Shadow of Torturer states a connection between Severian
and the the dark-haired woman, just dead.</div>
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<div>When Severian is resurrected from water by the Undine,
he is baptised in the form of a baptism by immersion,
unconsciously entering the congregation of the subjects of
Abaia. </div>
<div>In the same day, Severian is confirmed in the
allegiance to Abaia when he accepts the coin with the face
of the Autarch from Vodalus, this time consciously making
definitive the choice the Undine made for him at the
baptism. </div>
<div>The Confirmation administered by Vodalus makes Severian
a "Soldier of Abaia" (Severian thinks himself a
Vodalarius). Soldier is a derivation of Solidarius, Latin
meaning someone who works for money. Solidare in Latin
means "to pay" and the Roman soldiers were paid in
"Solidi". Severian instead is paid in chrisos (only one).</div>
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<div>Later, in the Claw of Conciliator, Severian will
receive the sacrament of Eucharist in the form of the
flesh of Thecla.</div>
<div>The succession of sacraments follows the tradition of
the Eastern Orthodox Church rather than the Roman Catholic
Church (where Eucharist is very close to Confirmation).<br>
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I'm not convinced by the connection between Severian and the woman -
might she not simply be the mother of the peasant who wanted to
guard her corpse that night? <br>
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The rest works for me; Severian was arguably baptised, confirmed and
received the Eucharist of the Church of Abaia/Vodalus as you say -
but in the end he abjured that faith...<br>
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- Gerry Quinn<br>
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