Thief of Time (Terry David John Pratchett) читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги

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The name “Myria” resonated with the English word “myriad”, meaning “a vast number” or “comprised of a large number of things”.

In the Bible, Mark 5, Jesus encounters a man in the country of the Gadarenes who is possessed by not one, but a multitude of unclean spirits: “And [Jesus] asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.” (Jesus allows the spirits to leave the man, and enter a herd of swine instead.)

In other words (and as Susan will also explain later), Myria(d) LeJean/legion is a perfectly appropriate name for a large group of (evil) spirits controlling a human body.