Re: Corpses (WAS: Arabic article (was: Corpses))

Staving Isidora Zamora:

>None of my conlangs have a word for one, either, but the religion of each
>of my concultures figures prominantly in making the people who they are,
>and ideas about death and the afterlife tend to be an important part of
>religion.  What the Nidirino believe about death and the afterlife, I have
>no idea.  I need to fix that, but so far I haven't been able to come up
>with any good ideas for a culture whose primary deity is locked in a
>struggle with Death.  They believe that the Sun is more powerful than
>Death...but surely they cannot have failed to have noticed that every
>single human being ever born dies.  What would such a culture believe about
>the afterlife?
They sound like natural believers in reincarnation. The Sun, which to them
is a deity more powerful than Death, periodically dies and is reborn. That
would be the fate his followers would hope for.

Pete