Jeshimon

[Joseph T]

  Jeshimon  is a Biblical name meaning 'wastelands, or wilderness.  
The whole scene is like a condensation of the historic context and  
crucifixion  of Jesus(of N.T.)  under roman law as exercised in the  
hinterlands of empire. The roads lined with telegraph poles and  
dangling corpses correspond to roads of the occupied country lined  
with crucified rebels, often fingered by  the religious leaders for  
hire to collaborationists,  Judas's betrayal coresponds  to Deuce's  
via Webb's trust. The local god with wings reminds of the Roman ( or  
American)eagle. the "trail of pain" sounds like the stations on the  
road to Calvary. "We done both your feet, how bout lets see your  
hands there old timer." There is even a mocking reference to "that  
good bodily resurrection stuff".

And on the third day he ascended from hell. When Reef arrives in  
Jeshimon it "looks like a religious painting of hell". The  
comparisons continue and pick up with Reef reading to Webb's dead  
body and confused ghost from "The Chums of Chance at the Ends of the  
Earth".The chums seeming to be "agents of an extra human justice".
reminding one of the book of The Revelation.

There is also a kind of pentecost with Reef enjoying talking with his  
Father, adopting his mission and exploding dynamite, "each explosion  
like the text of another sermon, preached in the voice of thunder".

Dunamis , from which we get dynamite was the early churches word for  
the power of God.