At 09:24 AM 05/31/2000 -0400, KYER, JEFFREY wrote:
>Andrew Dawson wrote:
>> At 09:37 AM 05/30/2000 -0400, KYER, JEFFREY wrote:
>> >Nymphs have always been spirits-of-the-place (genus loci)
>>
>> Yes, but sylphs were spirits too and they seem to have been recast as
>> spirits, elementals, and daemons. Also, genius loci sound a lot like
>> daemons to me.
>Very much nope. Its latin for 'spirit of the place' -- a spirit that
>embodies the nature of a location. Its the latin term for nymph but
>encompasses a lot of other things like lares and pentaes.
Oh, come on! Look up daemon in the Webster's Unabridged and you will that
it is defined as being, among other things, the genius of a place and a
spirit. By your reasoning, that would mean that nymphs must be daemons.
I originally asked the questions for information about Glorantha under the
HW rules. I appreciate the effort, but I wasn't asking for interpretations
of the legends of our world.
Thanks,
Andy