VLVL2 (9.5): "The Thanatoid Village"

[Dave Monroe]

   "Ortho Bob was heading up to the Thanatoid village
at the confluence of Shade Creek and Seventh River, in
Vineland County," (VL, Ch. 9, p. 172)


"Thanatoid village"

http://www.portmeirion-village.com/

http://www.scifi.com/prisoner/bigmap.gif

http://www.portmeirion.wales.com/en/features.php?id=24&MID=38


"Shade Creek"

Main Entry: 1shade 
Pronunciation: 'shAd
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English sceadu;
akin to Old High German scato shadow, Greek skotos
darkness
Date: before 12th century
1 a : comparative darkness or obscurity owing to
interception of the rays of light b : relative
obscurity or retirement
2 a : shelter (as by foliage) from the heat and glare
of sunlight b : a place sheltered from the sun
3 : an evanescent or unreal appearance
4 plural a : the shadows that gather as darkness comes
on b : NETHERWORLD, HADES
5 a : a disembodied spirit : GHOST b -- used to signal
the similarity between a previously encountered person
or situation and one at hand; usually used in plural
<shades of my childhood>
6 : something that intercepts or shelters from light,
sun, or heat: as a : a device partially covering a
lamp so as to reduce glare b : a flexible screen
usually mounted on a roller for regulating the light
or the view through a window c plural : SUNGLASSES
7 a : the reproduction of the effect of shade in
painting or drawing b : a subdued or somber feature
8 a : a color produced by a pigment or dye mixture
having some black in it b : a color slightly different
from the one under consideration
9 a : a minute difference or variation : NUANCE b : a
minute degree or quantity
10 : a facial expression of sadness or displeasure
- shade·less  /-l&s/ adjective 

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary


"Seeventh River"

Sarasvati appears first of all as a mighty river in
the R[ig] V[eda]. She is said "to flow from the
mountains upto the sea" (7,95,2), "to swell by getting
waters from the rivers" (6,52,6), and "to be the
seventh river, fed by (other) rivers" (7,36,6).

[...]

What we have been saying as "The Indus Valley
Civilization" is actually "The Sarasvati
Civilization".

http://realmagick.com/articles/58/1858.html

http://www.haryana-online.com/saraswati.htm

http://www.dnetservices.com/templeinfo/templeinfohtml/godavari&sarasvati.htm

http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati/resources/sarasvati_legend.htm

The seventh river is tahqir, that which entices us to
belittle the honorable position of the believers, as
well as anything that the believer possesses, anything
that is in his domain, and that which is halal
(permitted) for him and haram (forbidden) for others.
This river can be stopped by considering their honor
to be great and by respecting it.

http://www.al-islam.org/beamsofillumination/11.htm

http://www.nuradeen.com/Reflections/SuratAlNas.htm

Then the seventh river, the Gerrus, is split away from
the Borysthenes at that point in the country, to which
the Borysthenes is known. Now, it is split from that
place and has the very name that the place itself
does, Gerrus, while it flows to the sea and borders
the country of the pastoral ones and that of of the
royal Scythians; then it discharges into the
Hypacyris.

http://www.losttrails.com/pages/Tales/Inquiries/Herodotus_22.html

http://www.xenophongi.org/crimea/cities/evpatori/kirkin.htm

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