Re: Tech Gender (and finally, what does Tech mean?)

>From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
>"Daniel A. Wier" wrote:
> > so the name is something like 'crowned ones' or 'anointed ones'.
>
>A whole race of messiahs?  :-)
Whoops, you got me there.  It's a nation of king-priests, from the vantage
point of the pre-Judaic religion, which was a monotheistic form of shamanism
more or less.  (The king, and also the tribal chiefs, were each considered a
pontifex: not only an earthly ruler, but a spiritual intercessor.  You'd ask
your chieftain to pray for you like one would ask Mary for intercession if
he was Catholic or Orthodox.  Not that this person wouldn't be able to pray
himself...)

It also connotates the notion of election, 'chosen people'.  A deserved name
since they had brought peace many times to eastern Africa so many thousand
years ago.

Modern Techian Christians place a heavy emphasis on the Holy Spirit and
anointing; the passage referring to 'a holy nation, a royal priesthood' is
in a way a national motto; they don't consider themselves exclusive in that
anoiting, and never do they see themselves as a 'lost tribe of Israel'.

Danny
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