Those are some fascinating insights.
I do think reincarnation was known to exist in the East and in Teshnos before the formalization of the Life-Flames, but I do like their being mystico-spiritual-devices involved in their current manifestation. It made an esoteric spiritual cycle into a magical process discernible by mortal men.
Ah, if we could get more Eastern Gloranthan sources out there! (I'll keep my kvetching about the Orlanthi to myself.)
-S. Santo Sengupta
"Aum Shanti Shanti Shantih."
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_5rehs7FD_PAvfgARmng3SkZdYyV5Qnt_eMaJXIVwGdNNLo6UjWY0JS6QwvB8iEmQAGKgew7QkltbWP0YCpO05A.yahoo.invalidz
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> A good criticism for my model of Teshnan society based on reincarnation
> (technically transmigration) is that it sets Chal, a great sage of
> mythical times, as being far too worldly and magically sophisticated to
> be a proper sage.
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> As a result I think that Chal was pretty conventional in his three
> teachings and when he taught them, he envisaged it as a here-and-now
> practice rather than a study to be systematically pursued over the
> generations. Reincarnation was accepted as a matter of fact and past
> incarnations were identified but there was little control over it.
>
> So where did the transmigration technology come from? My gut feeling is
> the Babadi/Mostali of Diamond Mountain. All that's required is for some
> Teshnan Hero (probably Soravatoor) to conquer them and convert them to
> the Teachings of Chal. At first they built the Immense Prayer Wheel
> that lies in hollow Diamond Mountain to help them understand the
> Teachings better and then at some magical moment (the Sunstop) they
> developed transmigration.
>
> I don't think the Prayer Wheels are a Babadi invention rather they are a
> ritual practice which the Teshnans learned from the Juggernauts (big
> wheels going round and round). In my opinion, the Juggernauts came from
> drowned Abzered and were worshipped by the Teshnans. The Babadi simply
> used their knowledge of the World Machine to pimp up the Prayer Wheels.
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> --Peter Metcalfe
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