Re: Bastet Relay Translation Web Finally Up!!

bjm10@CORNELL.EDU wrote:
>
> I will say this--a Praxian version of this would have to be very
> different or would end up being a paean in praise of the most evil things
> imaginable.
I presume you're talking about Gospel of Bastet Selections.  It's a dark
text.  Dark obscure, not dark evil.

>
> Quietly accepting suffering and doing nothing about it?
No! Where are you getting this idea?  If you suffer, it is Bastet,
"sending
you her MICE!"  Find a way to work around your afflictions and eat them
up
as you do your prey.  If you are afflicted by wounds, it is the talons
of
Bastet.  She strokes you into strength.  A Teonaht version of "whatever
doesn't kill makes you stronger."

  That sounds like
> the lies of the /negjum@nAnT/, exactly the sort of things they try to
> tell our warriors to make them soft and weak so they can conquer us,
> steal our herds, and make our children starve!
Hmmm.  Are you talking about the original Relay post?  It's about
not being a peeping tom.  For the sayings of another deity, there
is Grorel, goddess of war and strategy--in wartime.  Bastet is about
making it in the peacetime world.

> Of course, felines are enemies of the people, anyway, since they prey
> upon the herds.
Not for the Teonim.  The enemies are the jackels and the wolves.

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