Re: Re: Animists and ancestors

From: David Cake <dave_at_...>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 09:23:02 +0800


>At 11:13 24/08/00 +0200, Nils Weinander wrote:
>
>> > Do you think that if one shaman in one clan
>> > contacts an ancestor and puts it in a fetish, that another shaman from
>> > another clan can't then contact the same ancestor?
>>
>>It would seem logical that the ancestor is not contactable
>>by others, as it is no longer present on the Spirit Plane.
>>But, as a fetish only contains one power of the spirit, one
>>could argue that just this power is tied up until the fetish
>>is used.
>
>The Borderlands Scenario where the PCs visit Gonn Orta indicates
>otherwise.

        Lets not get too stuck on basing all of how ancestor worship works based on one scenario hook.

        Its certainly possible that different ancestor worship traditions work differently, and work such that spirits in the fetishes are not denied to others necessarily. Its possible that this is the case even if some ancestor worship traditions do not work this way.

	Cheers
		David

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