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Date Posted: 22:12:33 10/20/02 Sun
Author: The Writer
Author Host/IP: dialup-209.246.81.26.Dial1.NewYork1.Level3.net / 209.246.81.26
Subject: Re: Quarto Zero:Folio Ten ADDENDA
In reply to: The Writer 's message, "Re: Quarto Zero:Folio Ten" on 21:58:19 10/20/02 Sun

>Damn.
>That's a heck of a lot of thought, there. I'm
>flattered and humbled. If that makes any sense, but
>it's true.
>
>I'll give warning now: pre-Columbian mythology isn't
>anywhere near as well understood as the ones coming
>from the "Old World." So ... I kinda take a few
>liberties. Nothing insane -- any jumps I make stem
>from things already established -- but I do have to
>make things up.
--} Okay. "Understood" here means well-known, reasonably complete, recorded, reiterated in literature, that kinda thing. Pre-Columbian mythology stems from a very different way of looking at the world, which I have trouble fathoming sometimes because I was brought with with more "western" styles of thought.
This means that when I can't find some good, solid info on something, I have to make things up. Sometimes. Not always, not constantly. But there's some ... speculation on my part.
That's what I meant to say. Don't know why I didn't write it like that from the start -- must be the lack of, uh, that thing, that, uh, when you're not up and about, you're -- it's supposed to happen at night, like, when there's no good TV on, it's the opposite of awake, you know what I mean.

>I have to resist the urge to spill all right now --
>Dan's got some fantastic ideas, and with some he's
>spot-on, and with some he's not, but but they're
>fantastic nonetheless.
--}Why do you feel it's an earth spirit? I'm just curious. And what makes you feel that it's not linked to wisdom or learning? Again, curiosity. Soe really strong ideas.
...Yeah, and just you wait for the High Priestess ;).

Me, with no tagline. How boring. Maybe I sould come up with one ....

>
>Thank you for the continued support!
>
>--BTW: My mom thought it was (or wanted it to be --
>she's very much a cat-lover) a jaguar. We can safely
>eliminate jaguars from the running.
>
>
>
>> Well. For starters, I can't pin a gender on it with
>>any certainty. The biggest clue to its name is
>>indubitably Soshi closing her eyes, but I have no idea
>>what that means. Oh well. I got an impression of
>>snakeness, probably from the tooth, but I can't find
>>any evidence to back it up.
>>
>> It's indubitably some spirt of Earth, slightly
>>annoyed at being left behind. It could be a deity,
>>but, on the other hand, "you would not be in my house
>>if you were [dead]," so it could just be a monstrous
>>being. I was thinking of Baba Yaga's hut when I read
>>it, which of course is the wrong mythology.
>>
>> Wait a minute, Soshi refers to it as "him" at one
>>point, I'd forgotten that.
>>
>> When I read the chapter I spent a little while
>>looking for Mayan or Aztec deities with green eyes. I
>>just spent a little time right now looking for one
>>with any connection to language or writing. Neither
>>of these searches yielded anything.
>>
>> So, I don't really have a guess. Probably more a
>>being of the Earth than of wisdom or learning. I'm
>>just waiting to see. I suppose more details will be
>>coming when you get to the High Priestess...
>>
>> (Cloak of words! I love it. More, more! *grin*)

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Re: Quarto Zero:Folio Ten ADDENDA -- Dan, 01:55:41 10/21/02 Mon
- Re: Quarto Zero:Folio Ten ADDENDA -- The Writer, 22:14:22 10/21/02 Mon
  - Re: Quarto Zero:Folio Ten ADDENDA -- Dan, 02:51:18 10/22/02 Tue