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Chapters 18 and 19 - Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer

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The Sun Makes Women Ugly

Hindu myth of Ervasi, who is a Hindu aspara or a spirit of possibility and Puravas, her human king concert. She decided she would be his concert under two conditions: never show himself to her naked because that would repulse her; he protect her goats from harm. He was not able to keep two promises to her because he lost the ability to do one while he was trying to protect the other. In Vedic literature and story in addition to this, Puravas is associated with the sun and Ervasi with the dawn. Their relationship is echoed in this story because what we just saw was a jia totally naked in the Cathedral of the Pal

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