"'With what ivory, apes, and peacocks we could muster, I sent back a commission for a warcraft to be built and outfitted.'" (p. 29)
For some history of the phrase, "ivory, and apes, and peacocks," see two previous posts here.
Belit says that Conan and she will have:
"'...a life together. If the jealous gods allow.'" (ibid.)
Probably series editors and authors will not allow but I cannot remember what shape the Conan-Belit relationship is in at the end of this volume and will wait to find out.
We know of one "jealous god" in the Bible but what is the origin of this phrase? Were other gods "jealous"?
Belit's remark reminds us of Manse Everard's realization that the gods are "...a miserly lot." Time travellers who spend a lot of time in the past probably learn to think that way.
I expect to be doing more gardening than blogging tomoz.
Laterz.
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Kaor, Paul!
I have read Anderson's CONAN THE REBEL more than once with great pleasure. But I have to wonder, how accurate is PA's pastiche of Conan compared to Howard's work? Anderson's Conan seems too reflective, too libertarian to be wholly consistent with Howard's Conan.
God is "jealous" because it would be wrong for the people He chose from among all the nations, the Jews, to worship false gods, literal nonentities. Israel's proper vocation was to be the means God chose of revealing Himself to all mankind. A process completed by the Incarnation, Passion, and Resurrection of Christ.
Ad astra! Sean
Passion is barbaric.
Kaor, Paul!
I disagree, what could be more infinitely sublime than God proving His love for our Fallen race than his Son becoming Man and dying for us?
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
But how does he die FOR us? Does God require a blood sacrifice?
God could have created the world in a completely different way in the first place.
Paul.
Sean: Well, Belit isn't Jewish. She's Semitic, yes -- from a long, long, long time before Jews existed, in Howard's legindarium.
Kaor, Paul and Mr. Stirling!
Paul: By accepting crucifixion the Incarnate Logos proved God's love for mankind, that He would spare Himself nothing to bridge the gap between God and man.
The world we have is what we got from the first man's sin.
Mr. Stirling: I agree, but I was leaping ahead from Belit to the OT's use of "jealous."
Ad astra! Sean
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