On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Joy Jennifer Nicholson wrote: > If the Cycle is stronger than the gods, then WHAT is the Cycle? Did > it exist before the creation of the empire, but in another form? Is > it like a law of physic? Is it sentient? I see it as an embodied symbol of the will of the Uebergod of the Dragaeran universe, Whom we refer to as Tetragrammaton or SKZB. The will presumably predates the universe, the embodiment perhaps not. I don't think "sentient" really applies to Something like that - too much knowledge is involved (any philosophers out there interested in Alvin Goldman and the Halting Problem?) - so I'd go with law of physics.