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Chapters 22 and 23 - Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer

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The Cumean in Greek Mythology

Hildegrion gives a little tour guide speech here where he says, you can see the shore ahead of us. You'll notice that the land keeps rising further on and it gets less boggy and we see more trees. That's because the whole place is theoretically designed to look like the mouth of a dead volcano. And so, the Cumean in Greek mythology, we've mentioned this briefly, but I want to go in a little more depth here. This is the high priestess and prophetess of the oracle of Cume. The Avernus, the lake from which the Avern gets its name, was a lake in an active volcano. It was decided

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