Re: Dievas dave dantis; Dievas duos duonos

In a message dated 2000:09:18 2:33:51 PM, joerg.rhiemeier@FREENET.DE writes:

>The word _Eru_ means something like "The One"; it can only be used for
>a monotheistic deity and doesn't have a plural.  "A god" would be _baln_,
>"gods" _beln_, literally "powers".
>
    Intriguing... In Viivo, one can refer to _Diio_ and it means - roughly-
<God(s)>.
Sorta like the English words "sheep," "wood," fish", ... the noun-forms in
Viivo are neither plural or singular (till modified otherwise).
    I like these differences in "semantic space"... it's in these details
that a language - NatLang or ConLang - express highly different worldviews...

    Jeorg's Nur-ellen brought to mind (my mind) Vikings before they were
fully Christianized.

    When using _Diio_, Viivo expresses a more Asian (I think) religious
perspective (perhaps more or less like paradox-riddled, pantheistic Hinduism).
    When using _Dao_, Viivo expresses a scientific/Taoist/Chaoticist
worldview.

    czHANg