Incarnation And Tramping Roads

Here I wrote that I wanted to find a passage in Poul Anderson's Genesis.

Here I had already quoted that passage.

(I could not quite remember how a reference to God Incarnate had been incorporated into Genesis.)

What had reminded me of this sentence in Genesis was Aliyat's reflection on her vision of Christ:

"In the West (she had heard?) they showed him like this, a man who had tramped roads, shared wine and honeycomb, taken small children onto his lap."

-The Boat Of A Million Years, XIX, 24, p. 533.

This also recalls Jack Havig's reflection:

"Suppose he was, well, not the literal incarnation of the Creator of these acres, those wildfowl, yonder universe...but at least the prophet from whose vision stemmed most of what was decent in all time to come. Could a life be better spent than following him on his ministry?"

-Poul Anderson, There Will Be Time (New York, 1973), VI, p. 60.