William George Ferguson wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 12:27:01 -0500, "Ken from Chicago"
> <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Of course, don't you see? With all the association of BATTLESTAR
GALACTICA
>> with religious imagery, 12 models of cylons, 12 worlds of the colonies,
12
>> tribes of Israel, 12 apostles, 12 gods of the Greek/Roman pantheon,
etc.
>> yet, what's gone unsaid, unnoticed, unmentioned is the obvious:
>>
>> THIRTEEN!
>>
>> It makes sense, dramatically speaking, from a meta-story point of view.
Even
>> in-story, all the time and energy spent on hiding the "Final Five"
cylons
>> are a diversion to hide the thirteenth cylon.
>>
>> Like Judas or Loki, the 13th cylon would be a viewed as a betrayer. But
a
>> traitor to whom? cylons? humans? both? or ... someone else?
>
> Someone should mention that Judas Iscariot was actually one of the
twelve,
> not a thirteenth.
>
>
> Dredging my 5-decade-old Sunday School Larnin'
>
> Simon of Galilee (called Peter by Jesus)
> Andrew (Simon Peter's brother)
> James, son of Zebedee
> John (James' brother)
> Phiip
> [the five Galilean fishermen that Jesus promised to make 'fishers of
men']
>
> Mathew the Publican (tax collector)
> Bartholomew
> Thomas
> James son of Alpheus (James the lesser)
> Thaddeus (identified by the Catholics as St. Jude)
> Simon of Canaan (Simon Zealotes)
> Judas Iscariot
>
> (one should probably always identify him as Judas Iscariot, since there
> were two other apostles,Thomas and Thaddeus, with 'Judas' as part of
their
> name, it was just a descriptor that meant 'twin')
>
Judas doesn't mean twin.
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9072158/Saint-Thomas
Ralph
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