Re: mystic otherworld

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_cs.ucc.ie>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 17:28:10 +0100 (BST)

Nils:
> SLH I can't say much about, but Yothbedta's Stream and other
> places of Vithelan myth are definitely in a theist portion
> of the Otherworld, as the actor's in these myths are mainly
> deities (with disclaimers about the High Gods as previously
> mentioned). So, it's Vithelan, but I don't think it can be
> called mystic.

That strikes me as being couched in terms so 4Wish as to be painful, though I don't disagree in substance. But what precisely do we mean by "otherworld"? Or come to that, "mystic"?

> > The worst Lunar Hell of all, the one where the very air is
> > pain, the one where they stuck Sheng, is where Gerra's (and thus
> > Sedenya's) Illumination took place.
>
> Which means you can achieve mystic liberation there. That
> does not necessarily make it a mystic otherworld, but there
> is no reason to rule out the possibility entirely I guess.

I'm not entirely sure what the distinction would mean here, indeed.

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