Re: Re: Neutral term for soul

From: donald_at_...
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 18:14:40 GMT


In message <e4q474+294h_at_...> "Tim Ellis" writes:
>..> wrote:
>
>> > and is perhaps just well enough
>> > known to not be entirely alien.
>> > ATMAN is that word.
>>
>> As far as I'm concerned that is entirely alien - and
>> that's a good thing. No way anyone can confuse its
>> game meaning with any coincidental RW meaning, when
>> for anyone but a non-specialist, it *has* no RW
>> meaning. Perfect. Will that perhaps now go into some
>> glossary or something on the glorantha.com website?
>
>Hmm, It's so entirely alien to me that it conveys no meaning at all..

Me as well. About the only problems are I'll probably forget it and some of those reading may not understand it without the definition at the time.

>In Greg's mail he mentions the dropped concept of an "etheric double"
>and it strikes me that "Etheric Double" or "Etheric Part" might be
>more readily recognisable without being confused for a specific
>otherworld part (hang on - whaqt's wrong with "otherworld part" or
>"otherworld portion"?)

Etheric double makes me think of a separate being indentical to the person being referred to.

-- 
Donald Oddy
http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/

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