Re: Humakt/Humct

From: Nick Brooke <Nick_Brooke_at_compuserve.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 18:15:40 -0500



A False David (Weihe) writes:

> Isn't Humct (Brithini for Murderer, as I remember), the Western False
> God of Death, pronounced a lot like Humakt, as well?

Due to a typo in the GoG Prosopaedia, solely. Humakt has an "ak", as it were.

> The philogical (sp? word study, anyway)

        [philological]
> part of the theory strikes me as incomplete at best, and a magnificent
> example of Medieval thinking (which is to say, NOT thinking, just bla-
> thering sounds that seem enjoyable when they wash over you) at worst.

What a grotesque misrepresentation of mediaeval thought and the power of Philology. Go and read "Jurgen" (by James Branch Cabell) forthwith!

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Nick
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