Re: Naming Mythical creatures

Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 04:32:25 -0800,
> "B. Garcia" <madyaas@...> wrote:
>
> > I'm a little curious on how those of you who've gotten far enough for
> > your cultures' mythologies on naming various deities, spirit types,
> > monsters, and mythical creatures?
> >
> I don't have Old Albic words for spirits and mythological creatures
> yet, with the exception of _goña_, which refers to some sort of
> evil spirit (actually taken from Tolkien's _Book of Lost Tales_,
> where "gongs" are some race of evil creatures).  However, some
> contours of the Old Albic demonology have already begun to take
> shape.
>
> There is a single creator-God, who first created the greater and
> lesser spirits.  Some of these spirits assisted the Creator in the
> creation of the world and entered it.  The mightiest of these
> spirits rebelled against the One and became the Adversary
> who turned some of the lesser spirits to evil.
This is quite similar to the Kash beliefs, but no Adversary.

> The greater spirits are few in number and bear individual names.
> The lesser spirits are plentiful, and there are many kinds of them.
> The _gøñi_ (plural of _goña_) are one sort of those lesser spirits
> that turned to evil.  Another kind of evil beings are the "husks",
> beings with human body but no soul.
Greater/Lesser Spirits too. "Husks"-- what an interesting concept. I haven't
gotten to mythological creatures yet.
>
> The lesser spirits were originally called into the world to guard
> it, but their attitude to the world was a playful one because their
> existence was not tied to the fate of the world,
Most of the Greater Spirits are considered benign and helpful; a few, like
the Sea, are capricious; and a few are considered malign; same for the
Lesser ones. I'm in the process of writing this up, and look forward to your
description too.

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