[Glorantha] Souls and so forth

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

I agree that the semantic issue here is getting a wee bit up itself, but to be fair, most (non GL) Gloranthans will not be discussing the theistic, mystic, animist (etc...) cultures of Glorantha side by side, and thus have a need to differentiate.

> If you really want to be technical then immortal self or magical self
> would be acceptable terms.

I could go with either of them, though I personally have no qualms about using Soul as a generic term, and prefixing it with "Theistic" when we need to be nice about it. That's the pedantic usage of the word nice by the way, in case anyone was wondering. ;-)

Mark Mohrfield:
> My own vote would be for theist soul, animist soul, and essence soul.
> Likewise I think that the terms for immaterial otherworldy beings should
> be theist spirit, animist spirit, and essence spirit.

I thought we were trying to agree on a single generic term, not end up with six more-specific-than-ever terms!

Malk. Received on Wed 10 May 2006 - 14:30:12 EEST