The Allmuseri God, signifies unity to the tribe. It is the master of everything. The universe, the cosmos...it controls the outward expanding of the universe, it controls even the atoms. It keeps the cylce going and going. Forever uniting everything. It does this, as the Allmuseri preists say, with "only one-fourth of its full power." And uses the other three-fourths to sustain parallel universes. I think this is awesome, but the description of this God got a little foggy. It has a "thousand names" and they don't carve it's image. "All tings are its image: stone and sand. Master and salve." Falcon was I guess just lucky, that he was in the right place and the right time when the God apeared in its physical form.
Some advantages of having a symbol of unity, like this god, is that Falcon is stripping unity from the tribe....I'm running into a wall with this prompt. I guess a disadvantage would be that....what is falcon going to do with a god?...sell it?....tame it? Who knows?
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Ivan,
ReplyDeleteAlways fun to witness a student running into a wall. I actually think you have a pretty good grasp of what the God might represent, and I think that you'd do well to search for answers to your own very good questions as we read the second half of the book.