Re: Missing the sky

From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
>> But it is a very strange thing--it cannot be heard or touched or smelled
>> or tasted, and its appearance is quite... inconstant?  It is possible that
>> the day's blue sky might be seen as a thing by the Rami, but I am not sure
>> that any other state might be.  Words for spaces.. Words for any spaces at
>> all might be difficult Rami concepts.
>
>
> How would you translate "landscape" in Rami then? Because it has the same
> caracteristics as sky (inconstancy, cannot be touched, etc...). Yet a
landscape
> is something pretty real! :))
A landscape is just a section of the earth--one can measure its boundaries, draw
its features, and whatnot... so I gather.

>> > Some just have a god of the sky and name the sky itself after the
>> > god.
>>
>> Well, the Rami have been traditionally nontheistic.
>>
>
> Well, even non-theists can have spirits and other kinds of creatures :)) .
True, and actually in that conworld there actually are such spirit-type things
(which, ironically, are visible only to the Rami--who are creatures with a wider
range of vision than humans)...

Hmm... if a derivative of 'sky' was made from that (which it may be) then that
would give quite a negative concultural opinion of the sky, considering these
spirits are quite malicious creatures.[1]

    *Muke!

[1] No, the whole race of them is not evil (that would be ridiculous) but it is
those which have become so who are forced to manifest in that part of the
spectrum visible to the Rami, so it does tend to look that way.
--
http://www.frath.net/

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