Re: OT: elves and jinn (was Re: [...] THE WORLD OF THE JINN)
| From: | Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, October 18, 2003, 7:23 |
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Ah, but you remember what happened when Semele demanded that Zeus reveal his
glory to her?
His power burned her up in a flash of his glory. And you get the same concept
in the story of Moses asking to see God's face, and being denied because he
would not be able to withstand God's glory ...
As far as it goes, I suppose my view of spirits, considering that I don't
actually believe in a spirit world as such, is that they are a lot closer to
"primal" energy than humans, who get it through a whole heap of
intermediaries such as the sun and its nuclear reactions, the plants and
their photosynthesis, and animals and their digestive systems, and lastly,
our own digestion. Eg, disincarnate spirits cause a drop in temperature
because they drain energy from the ambient matter.
I suppose that's why I've never considered myself a worthy possibility for
neo-Paganism.
I'm too much a skeptic.
Wesley Parish
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 03:07, you wrote:
> ::snip::
> >
> >Certainly jinn are a conlang opportunity, and present an interesting
> >challenge
> >- how would they communicate with humans without destroying them? Etc.
>
> Interesting. As a member of body wihich has amongst its assorted members
> some persons who believe strongly in nature spirits (i.e. Pagans), I've
> perceived the idea of "how would they communicate" (whenever I've
> considered it) to be more an issue of "why would they communicate" and then
> "by what mechanism perceivable to humans" rather than that a fire spirit
> might unintentionally burn the human, a water spirit drown him/her, an
> earth spirit smother... I suppose an air spirit might whisper.
>
> I realize that I've never considered any of them "pure" elementals - fire
> needs air, fuel; water has dissolved solids; earth can be damp; air carries
> smoke, dust, mist.
>
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