- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I think the reference to Lyca in the Cortana letters refers to the fact that this poem is generally viewed as symbolizing the loss of innocence, (I read alot of interpretations on it last night,) and you see in the poem that Lyca loses her innocence at 7. It's probably not a coincidence that AI's tend to go rampant after 7 years. While Cortana is not 7 years old yet, she does mention in the books that digesting all the information from Halo and the Covenant flagship will likely cut years off of her life.
edit- oh and from the first post of this thread, if I remember correctly from my Muslim Spain class, Alhambra is the palace itself and their is a very famous fountain of the lions there. So thats probably why googling palace and lions together gave you Alhambra. Doubt there is any relation to Halo though.
[Edited on 5/29/2006]