[Dragaera] Seventeen Maybe Different Jhegaala Spoilers

[Kenneth Gorelick]

On Jul 14, 2008, at 2:06 PM, Scott Schultz wrote:

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>> 4. Someone who has read more than one book on the relevant historical
>> era might chime in on Coven/Guild/Manor as Church/Guild/Manor in the
>> Middle Ages or early Industrial Revolution.  Or maybe "Coven" =  
>> "Jews"
>> is a useful comparison.
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> Not much to say about this except that I was somewhat surprised by  
> the portrayal of Father Noij as very much like a friar or Christian  
> priest. Not at all what I would have expected from a priest of  
> Verra. The business with Vlad claiming Sanctuary was also a very  
> medieval churchy thing. Unusual, but maybe that just says that Verra  
> has many facets and the one you see depends upon which eyes you  
> choose to look at her with.


Just note that at the Merss funeral the priest is making "cabalistic  
gestures"; note further that the Kabalah is a Jewish mystical  
tradition, and perhaps it is the Church of Verra which is really the  
Jews in the story...

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