Re: Constructed Religions

Terrence Donnelly wrote:

>At 11:23 AM 12/31/98 +0100, Kristian wrote:
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>>With over 3000 spiritual beings in the Kadane religion, it seems
>>unlikely that the domain of most of these beings would not be very
>>specific. To me, a more specific domain would mean a smaller
>>domain, and a smaller domain would mean a lesser importance, and
>>lesser importance means less Godly.
>>
>>I don't mean to nitpick -
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>No problem!
>
>>I'm just curious how it is at all possible
>>to have 3000 gods without having it develop into a situation where
>>most of these so called gods are seen as mere spirits instead.
>>
>The Kadane have only one word to refer to all these types of
>beings, /pol/, normally glossed as 'god, goddess', although I guess
>following your comments, it could also mean 'spirit, elemental'.
This explains a whole lot. With only one word for all these
supernatural beings, its no wonder they could all be considered
"gods". But I think you still ought to gloss /pol/ as "gods,
spirits, elementals, or any supernatural being" and not as simply
"gods".

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>Thanks for the opportunity to expound at length about these folks!
No problem! 8-) T'was interesting in the first place.

Regards,
-Kristian- 8-)