[Glorantha] Souls, Great Selves, generic terms

From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20>
Date: Tue May 9 20:00:06 2006

• Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_quicksilver.net.nz> wrote: Me:

> >Well in that case what's the non-dodgy Simon
> Hibbsian
> >term meaning "soul, spirit, essence, or whatever
> your
> >otherworld calls the thing"?

> Soul works just as fine and any gloranthan who
> insisted
> otherwise would have been beaten up by their elders
> and betters for pointless pedanty.

It worked fine for me too until this three(4?5?)-world model came along, and any use of "soul" got queries as to what about the other worlds (sigh).

> If you really want to be technical

It's being forced upon me :(

> then immortal self or magical self would be
> acceptable terms.

Sounds good to me, especially the latter (or we'd get into arguments about immortality).

Simon Hibbs suggested "As a generic term perhaps we could say they are all kinds of Life Force." And that would do me, too.

Any votes for a generic phrase that won't get us all confused?                 

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