At 07:25 AM 5/15/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>> were "functionally hsunchen", at least to a first approximation,
>> though not of hsunchen historical origins?
A umber of older peoles were claled hsunchen who were not really hsunchen.
The troll bug-transoformers,for instance.
>We know there are tribes who have stopped being hsunchen,
>but is there any precedence for a people who are not
>descended from the original fiwan _becoming_ hsunchen?
No, you must be one of them to become one.
GL called everyone who could turn into an animal a hsuhchen. They were wrong.
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