Subject: Re: Gods & designing
From: Tommi Leino (namhas@majik.netti.fi)
Date: Mon Jul 26 1999 - 00:19:23 EEST
Ville V Sinkko wrote: > > In brief: A mortal cannot know the true name of a God, or that the God > exists. Therefore he must a) invent his own name for the God he worships > and b) invent the whole God. What if it is well-known fact that the gods really do exist and they even talk with mortals (that being not so rare event). The gods are also universal, Majik is not so large and our pantheon is a small one. Of course a random mortal can say "I worship Bob. Bob is the most great!", without such a god existing, but as the gods are common in Majik (my vision), the mortals except some activity, feedback and deeds from the gods and thus the false gods do not live long. It should be also usual that the real names of the gods are widely-known, but individual tribes can name their god to whatever they wish, but why to name it to something else as they know the god by the name anyways? They do not need to call Aluna as Aluna always, they can refer she by her title, for example: "May the Lady of Light lighten your path.", but IMHO it is not so nice to give the god a whole new name which doesn't actually mean anything, or with a some excuse like that the name is in the tribe's native language and means the Goddess of Sun. -- Tommi Leino / Majik 3D project namhas@majik.netti.fi http://majik.netti.fi
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