MDMD(4) - Giant rob'd Beings (108.9-12)

[Doug Millison]

I hope it's permissible to add a question and observationn to an
already-excellent list.

Chapter 11
108.9-12 "...behold a Company of Giant rob'd Beings, risen incalculably far
away over the Horizon, bound this way upon matters forever unexplain'd,
moving blind and remorseless across the Sea, as if the Island did not
exist."

Any suggestions about who or what these Beings represent? They remind me
somehow of the beings (are they angels? I don't remember exactly where this
is in GR) in GR. Here, in M&D, the characterizations "blind and
remorseless" and "matters forever unexplain'd" make them seem sinister.

One possible connection that comes to mind, far-fetched perhaps but perhaps
not given the other Chinese references in M & D, is to the company of "8
celestial beings crossing the ocean"  (in the pingyin romanization:  "ba
xian guo hai") a popular tale (every child knows it) of Chinese mythology.





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