From: Alex Ferguson (abf@cs.ucc.ie)
Date: Fri 19 May 2000 - 04:58:38 EEST
Me:
> > The very first time TakenEgi 'emerges': it's pure 'becoming', the
> > Egi are pretty much squished together, and the best bits gets to
> > become Rufus. Then, he gets offed a few times, and comes back as
> > _exactly_ the same person: he self-resurrects, in other words.
> > The Egi don't have to 'become' him, they already are him (or what's
> > left, or whatever).
Nick:
> My take on this: pre-Sheng, the original Council of Egi was always the same
> when they arranged each reincarnation. When Takenegi was offed, he came back
> exactly the same *because* their "inputs" were exactly the same: the Egi
> didn't remake him any differently. (Insert a certain amount of mystical
> hand-waving here to explain the identical body each time, but how hard can
> this be? Trivial differences between the Four Quarters' specialisations
> aren't enough to bother me).
I don't substantiatively disagree with this, though I think that
regarding it as self-resurrection, or at least, more akin to self-
resurrection than later occurrences, is a useful thing, and in
keeping with the More or Less Dara Happan Than Thou pattern of
Lunar development. If one were a Dara Happan living during that
period, you could certainly _think_ of the process as being
resurrection pure and simple, with the Egi pretty much just playing
a 'ritual' part, without needing to be 'inputs' as such, if not
out and out just sunning themselves on the bright side of the moon.
Post-Sheng, I agree without any real need of caveat. If you
want to think of it as a resurrection, it's a pretty dang weird
one, these days, but it still has an element of that. Naturally you
can also take the view that it was always recreation/reincarnation, and
the post-Sheng differences are simply a yet more perfect unfolding of
the Goddess's plan, with the cyclic and/or circumstantial Masks being
a distinct improvement on the original scheme, with its 'Dara Happan
veneer' of unchanging inflexibility.
Cheers,
Alex.
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