[Glorantha] Souls, Great Selves, generic terms

[Jane Williams]

--- 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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