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Re: Constructed Religions

From:Andrew Smith <hobbit@...>
Date:Saturday, January 2, 1999, 23:46
On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Padraic Brown wrote:

> Gosh! I didn't think _anyone_ else did this sort of thing. One project I > started some dozen or so years ago, the writing out of a few religious > texts from an odd sort of Christianity found in a Certain World, has > eventually evolved into the "Book of the Holyman". [snip] I ought to try
and
> find the missal that went with it...I remember there was a long Mass and a > short Mass and a couple of other tidbits. Perhaps I'll make up a combined > book of the two. Oo, another project! >
Interesting. Let me know how you get on.
> > Have you translated any of the Stowe Missal into Brithenig yet? I seem to > recall that was at one time a possibile project. >
At the moment I have wrestled my way through the opening litany of saints, translating it from Latin into Brithenig via English. As I am not a latin scholar it is slow work. Obviously it's time to attack it again. - andrew. Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@earthlight.co.nz Q. Why are there so many Smiths in the Phone Book? A. Because they all have telephones! -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GL d+ s-:+ a32 C+ UL P? L E? W++ N+ o-- K- w O M+ V PS++ PE- Y+ PGP- t+* 5+ X- R tv b+++ DI+ D-- G e++ h- !r y- ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------