Fewer gods than you drink they are?

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_cs.ucc.ie>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:00:27 +0100 (BST)


Jeff Richard on Elmal and Yelmalio:

> Increasingly I question whether they are the "same diety"

Increasingly I ask myself, "what do we mean by 'the same'?", and: "how can we reach an empirical definition of 'deity'?" (Thank you, D. Adams.) I'm serous, though, this is a philosophically rather "deep" area, amd one in which one should not expect easy answers -- or necessarily ones that make complete sense. The best that one can do is: to answer such questions in the terms Gloranthans themselves would; or, to make explicit in what sense precisely ones means "the same deity as".

Slainte,
Alex.


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