dennis@CSNET-SH.ARPA@caip.RUTGERS.EDU (01/26/86)
From: "Cyril N. Alberga" <alberga.yktvmx%ibm-sj.csnet@CSNET-SH.ARPA> After seeing Alphenlicht located in Europe for the SECOND time I feel forced to write. It is clear from the book the Alphenlicht is south of the Caucasus. Lake Van and the former Kingdom of Van are in Eastern Anatolia, now Turkey, south of Soviet Armenia and near the Iraqi/Irani boarders. It's all very mountainous in that area, and is near enough to Iran to make the presence of Magi (as desendents of Zorastrians?) reasonable. Of course there is no "free" space there, but the same can be said for Davidson's "Triune Monarchy", and that never bothered me either. The only anomaly to me a odd feeling that there should be a link to Bactria and the Alexandrian Greek asiatic monarchies, but that may be just my own addition to the mise-en-scene. Cyril N. Alberga