[Glorantha] Great Self

From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20>
Date: Tue May 9 08:00:07 2006

• Nils Weinander <nils_at_weinander.org> wrote:

> >>Is that because a Great Self is a dodgy Lunar
> concept not recognised by
> >>anyone else?
 

> > I thought it was a dodgy Simon Hibbsian term,
> coined to get around the fact
> > that Soul, Spirit and Essence are all
> culture-specific in Glorantha, and
> > therefore problematic to use in discussion. No?
>
> It is a mystic term, undoubtedly named differently
> in
> different cultures. The East Islanders call it
> Atrilith.

Well in that case what's the non-dodgy Simon Hibbsian term meaning "soul, spirit, essence, or whatever your otherworld calls the thing"? We still need one, and it looks like "Great Self" just got hijacked by the Mystics (or was it the Lunars?)                 

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