Language, Religion, and an information quest (or somesuch)

Axiem <axiem@...> wrote:
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> Well, I'm not going to get into why, but now I'm trying to come up with
> a good word that expresses "God" or a supreme entity, etc, and I was
> wondering how all of you came up with that word/words for your =
conlangs,
> if you even have them?
    Here is an excerpt from a post I made last December on the same =
subject.

     Before first contact with other sentients the gladifers' conception =
of
God only existed as a philosophic theory that the universe was created =
and/
or designed by an intelligent being.  This being was called _nmutsnau_, =
from
the attribute _nmut_, having roughly the same meaning as the English =
prefix
_meta_, and _snau_, meaning "intelligent being".  Acceptance of this =
theory
was never very widespread, especially after the Big Bang was discovered, =
but
it persisted and was familiar to those gladifers with an interest in =
philo-
sophy.  However, it never occurred to its proponents to worship this =
being.
     When gladifers came into contact with other species with human-like
gods (including, of course, humans themselves) they applied the name =
_nmut-
snau_ to those concepts.  As with most alien cultural phenomena, there =
were
some gladifers who adopted the alien religions.  They remain a minority, =
but
for every major human religion there are gladifers who profess it, albeit
sometimes in ways strange to their human coreligionists.

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             Dennis Paul Himes    <>    dennis@himes.connix.com
             homepage: http://www.connix.com/~dennis/dennis.htm
        Gladilatian page: http://www.connix.com/~dennis/glad/lang.htm
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Disclaimer: "True, I talk of dreams; which are the children of an idle
brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance =
as
the air."                      - Romeo & Juliet, Act I Scene iv Verse =
96-99