Re: CHAT: Ave Maria

Raymond Brown

> At 9:50 pm +0100 24/6/00, Dan Jones wrote:
> >One of Carasta's religions is Christianity of an early Catholic
> kind. I was
> >trying to think of a way to present a short sample from each of
> the Carastan
> >languages, and I came up with this, a translation of Ave Maria.
<snip Ray's corrections>

Mea culpa. I should have looked the text up, instead of trying to do it by
memory. Still, for a Pagan ex-Catholic who has been a relentless apostate
for about sixteen years, I think that was pretty well remembered.

> But if one of Carasta's religions is Christianity of an early Catholic
> kind, I fear we have an anachronism here.  The prayer as given above was
> not known in early Catholicism; it did not become standardized until the
> Council of Trent in the 16th century.
Fair enough. I haven't really thought too hard about Caedhan Christianity.
All I know is that it is early, and was bought to Caedha by some Croats who
happened to slip through the dimensions. Ave Maria was, to be honest, simply
the only Catholic text I could remember (even then, not too well :( ) which
wasn't the Lord's Prayer or the Apostles Creed (both not used because they
were too long).

Dan

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Lo deu nu preca êl'aisún necoui.  God prays at noone's altar.

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