More history. A lot more. Names of nations and of governmental forms have changed. An Arodish woman married a Kithman who had left his ship and moved with him to Kith Town. Widowed, she took her son, Selador, with her back to Aroda where he founded a split-off from Arodism and was martyred. Seladorians entered into conflict with other groups but, when Envoy returns to Earth in a later chapter, Seladorianism will have been the dominant religion for thousands of years and that is as much Andersonian turmoil as I can cope with this evening! I am following current Terrestrial turmoil on the Internet but I want to get back to rereading Stieg Larsson before turning in. Tomorrow is a new day with Zen in the evening for me and choir for Sheila. Tuesday hopefully will be the next visit to Andrea above the Old Pier Bookshop. Onward and - well, onward, at least.
2 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I never thought Seladorianism very satisfactory because we were not given much meat on the bones of that fictional philosophy or faith. I think Anderson wanted us to think of Arodism as possibly analogous to Judaism, with the Seladorian spinoff as semi-analogous to Christianity.
Ad astra! Sean
Correction, we are told something about Seladorianism, it's Arodism we know next to nothing about.
Sean
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