When Ivar walks with Jaan:
"A warm and pungent wind stroked faces, fluttered garments, mumbled above the mill-noise of the falls." (p. 203)
And the conversation, so far, is unproblematic. However, when Jaan says:
"'For Caruith shall rise again.'
"The wind seemed to blow cold along Ivar's bones. 'Who is Caruith? What is he?'" (p. 205)
As ever, the wind is our indicator of what is going on although, this time, it seemed to blow cold... This time, the wind has not changed to match the conversation but nevertheless a reference to the wind serves to tell us how Ivar responds to the prophet's words.
At last, after all this preparation and after an apparent change in the wind, we come to Jaan's account of his technological demon.
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Kaor, Paul!
THE DAY OF THEIR RETURN gives us a very good example of a fake religion cooked up for cynical and expedient reasons! The clearest real world examples I can think of would be Mormonism and the Church of Scientology. I recall Stirling saying he did not think Joseph Smith believed his claims. And I think L. Ron Hubbard invented Scientology to prove he could con the IRS into giving him tax exempt status."
Ad astra! Sean
*I have to grudgingly admire that kind of chutzpah!
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