> Dawn?
I don't think "dawn" is generally used in this way. In practice it describes either the moment of sunrise, or the point at which the sky is conspicuously rather light, not the _period_ of twilight, and not really the beginning of twilight either, as it would be more strictly defined.
> >[the idea of crystal spheres]
> > is also the explanation that GRAY alludes to the Lunar Materialists
> >favouring, BTW. ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Surely all Lunar Astronomers regardless of religious persuasion believe
> in the Crystal Spheres. It was a relevation of TakenEgi as taught by
> Korkeros.
Materialism isn't a religion, it's a philosophical/worldview "mode". I think that to be much of a celestionomer, at least one of an Observational or Cosmological bent, you pretty much have to be a Materialist, regardless of whether you worship Dayzatar, Buserian, Yelm, a Lunar cult, or no-one at all.
What you don't have to be is a _Lunar_ Materialist, which is the distinction I orginally intended.
Nick chimes in thusly:
> This, to me, is the definitive proof that the Sky Dome clearly does *not*
> work according to a Crystal Spheres model.
Tee-hee... I found this disgraceful piece of lese emperorship _shocking_, unprovoked, unfounded -- and hilarious and obviously true. ;-)
> And I write as one who Loves the Lunar Way, not a moon-hating barbarian).
You're too modest, Nick; you write as both, as suits your wicked purposes. <duck> And alarmingly convincingly as both, hence I vote we burn you as a suspect Illuminant.
> Nah: house spiders. Sandy's an insect freak, remember?
I have to stoutly defend Mr. Petersen against this scurrilous accusation: he's a much more democraticly an _arthropod_ freak, I think you'll find. Insects, archanids, myriapods, the whole wriggly-wiggly, creepy-crawly shebang.
> (Bet he's got one of those useful Troll insect-repellents).
Of course. Has anyone seen any 12' tall centipedes around Sandy's house? I rest my case.
Slainte,
Alex.
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