Sorry, small nitpick: On Mar 22, 2004, at 11:59 PM, Sean Whalen wrote: > --- Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: > I've argued before that there can be more than one > Emperor per reign (and that there is only one Phoenix > Reign per cycle, almost always taken by a decadent > Phoenix). An incoming Phoenix emperor would be ascending phoenix who then sinks into decay. It is suggested by the poem and by Tortaalik (I gave the textev for this before, but I'm not on my normal computer, so I don't have the sent mail to refer to. It's, I think, in Ch. 6 of FHYA) that every Phoenix emperor/empress will become decadent by the end of his/her reign. -- Matthew Klahn Software Architect, CodeTek Studios, Inc. http://www.codetek.com