Dragaera

Gods

Sun Sep 21 06:42:58 PDT 2003

Yours  idea is quite interesting and some weeks ago I tried to something 
similar although easier: fit each angel with its corresponding dragaeran 
house.


>From: "Jon Carey" <greyw01f at hotmail.com>
>To: Dragaera at dragaera.info
>Subject: Gods
>Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 01:13:42 +0000
>
>So, there I was, thinking about religion, cause I'm a philosophy major and 
>I'm in a course that's analyzing the nature of evil..and I think, well, 
>what about the Gods in Dragaera, cause I'm really really bored, and I can't 
>read any Brust books because I'm so damned busy reading Govier, Neiman and 
>Arendt.
>
>Basically, I was reading about Jesus (being the answer to the question that 
>the story of Job poses us)
>and I was thinking, hey wait, if Dragaera is connected in some way to TRIH, 
>well, could it be that the gods are just angels of a higher order than the 
>Dragaerans?
>
>And so I started thinking, purely whimsically, that each god was a 
>character from TRIH.  Now, I'm fairly sure that this isn't the case at 
>all--first and foremost reason beign the Jesus simply doesn't appear (or 
>hasn't YET *jarring chord*) in the Dragaeran novels.  Therefore, the angels 
>that were concerned with the mythology of earth can't be concerned with the 
>history of Dragaera.  But then, I think, well, that's not necessarily true.
>
>So, just because I'm bored, I'm trying to correlate the Gods, and what we 
>know of their personalities, to angels we meet in TRIH.
>
>I don't yet have LOCB but I do have POTD so I will be drawing pretty much 
>all of my information from there.  And maybe _Taltos_
>
>For Verra, the closest thing I can come to is Lilith.  Keep in mind that 
>the effects of Cacoastrum can explain the change in form that is evident in 
>the description of the various gods.  Also keep in mind that the arguments 
>against these correlations are legion, and that this is sheerly for 
>amusement.
>Proceeding, then.  If Verra is Lilith (and I can't find any reason to 
>change their names either) then Barlen must be Lucifer, and not Satan, 
>because Satan must be Trout, being the undisputed wisest of the Fallen. But 
>then, Barlen is described as "the most powerful of all the gods" and also 
>fits the bill as Verra's ex lover, and this entire email is too 
>complicated.
>
>The Dragaeran gods are not angels from TRIH, or, if they are, they're not 
>the ones that TRIH is concerned with.
>
>We need more traffic on the list anyway.  I miss the 50 posts a day.
>
>Jon
>
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