From: Michael Straight <straight@email.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Whorl Name and a theory...
Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 10:31:14 


On 15 May 1998, Dan'l Danehy Oakes wrote:

> We are told (by whom?  Can't recall!)
> that Typhon and company were unable to completely erase memory
> of _them_ from the starcrossers' brains.  But they wouldn't
> want to do that; it's totally against Typhon's utterly self-
> aggrandizing style.
> 
> Rather, I suggest, they tried to erase memory of God from
> the starcrossers -- and were unsuccessful (as they were also
> unsuccessful in keeping Him out), so that He made it into the 
> prophetic "chrasmologic" writings (as He also made it into 
> the Whorl by enlightening the sacrificial vessel Silk).

The way I read that business is that Typhon et. al. wanted to erase the
starcrossers' memories of Typhon the Tyrant and replace them with memories
of Allfather Pas the Omnibenificent who, when they arrived at their
destination, would be incarnated into a human form (the original purpose
of Silk's body?) and be their Divine Ruler. 

Erasing all memory of the true God would be a necessary part of this plan
and (because he *is* the true God) was not entirely successful, as you
point out.

-Rostrum


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