Re: OT: Corpses,etc. (was: Re: Gender in conlangs (was: Re: Umlauts (was Re:Elves and Ill Bethisad)))
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 10, 2003, 19:53 |
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Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
> > Because the Cwendaso refuse to cremate their dead, some Trehels are tempted
> > to wonder if they don't have souls, because anyone with a soul would
> > obviously want to free the soul after death by cremating the body.
>
> Incidentally that's exactly the view the Sohlesjn (those who
> speak, or at any rate write, Sohlob) take. I wonder where
> it is represented in *this* world?
The Kassii use cremation, also to "free the soul" (if the souls are not
reincarnated within 6 days ofthe death of their body, they die; the soul
can also be freed by certain spirit beings, but they're a lot less
reliable than cremation). However, that doesn't lead them to wonder
about non-cremators having souls or not. They just feel scorn at those
fools who let their loved ones perish.
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