Re: New conlang - Ichwara Prana

On Nov 22, 2004, at 6:00 PM, Pascal A. Kramm wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:14:15 +0200, Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
> wrote:
>> How come you're using the Hebrew euphemism _Hashem_ in your
>> German-Sanskrit hybrid conlang?
> Well, since the population consists entirely of Hindus and Buddhists,
> as
> you can see on the history page:
>   http://www.choton.org/ichwara/history.html
> and as such the Bible (and Christian beliefs in general) are totally
> alien
> to them, they just adopted the Jewish bible translation with the names
> given
> in it (Hashem, Jahwe etc.), since that's closer to their own
> polytheistic
> religion. All those names are always regarded as separate entities.
> Actually, they'd rather bite off their tongue than speaking of "god",
> and
> the "GD" from the Jewish bible is always reproduced as "Gada" (and only
> regarded as one of many entities).
I'm not sure what you mean.
"Hashem" isn't a name on it's own - it's a euphemism for the
Tetragrammaton (Y..H).
What do you mean by "Jewish bible translation"?
How are the Jewish variety of names for the Divine closer to their
polytheistic religion than the Christian, Muslim, etc. names?  I don't
know of any religion that always refers to its divine figure(s) in the
same way all the time.
I've encountered many Buddhists and Hindus using the word "God",
although the meaning of the term wouldn't exactly match the meaning
implied when a Jew, Christian, Muslim, Baha'i, Aten-worshipping Ancient
Egyptian, or any other monotheist or monolater would use it.  In fact,
i've been told by Hindus that all of their many gods are actually
different forms of a One God.  Are the Hindus and Buddhists in your
alternate history so  radically different from Hindus and Buddhists
*here* that they find the idea of monotheism so horrible?


-Stephen (Steg)
  "sundays are bad because the deflector shields are down.
   ...i mean filters"
      ~ teacher z (after saying something bad out loud)