[Glorantha] Re: Otherworld non-specific terminology

[David Weihe]

>From Jane Williams
> --- Phil Hibbs <snarks at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Any votes for a generic phrase that won't get us
> > > all confused?
> > Why not Great Self? I don't see the problem. 
> Because that seems to be being used for something else
> entirely. I'm not too sure what, something to do with
> mysticism, but apparently it's something that *isn't*
> soul/spirit/essence/whatever it's called in your
> Otherworld.

Yes, I would assume that the Great or Greater Self was the part that
matters to Ascended mystics, vs. the lesser bits that are merely soul,
spirit, or essence.  I would have assumed that even before reading that
Sheng Seleris gave up *his* for great power within the Illusion that is
Glorantha and its Otherworlds (much like Buddhist gods, who aren't
worshipped so much as pitied for having fallen into the same trap).

> Gianfranco Geroldi
> What about "Anima"?
> Latin is our common forefather, after all.

Oh?  I speak a Germanic tongue, and the Finns do not even (natively)
speak an Indo-European one.  Not to mention that the Japanese Digest
readers use one that has no relation to either the Indo-Europen or
Finno-Ugaric groups.

> The fact that the word is equally an italian one is
> unconsequential :-)

It is quite consequential.  When they started developing "scientific"
names for everything, the English used Latin or Greek because they were
different enough from common speech that they had no connotations, let
alone denotations.  Therefore, Latin or Greek are entirely out.

I would propose one of these:
 1) Other Self - this has a problem, since it might imply one's Other
in the Yelmic or Nysalor/Arkat sense, though.

 2) Ghosty Bits - to go along with the Pythonesque term "Naughty Bits".
 After all, what is the bit of a dead person left haunting the living? 
Their ghost. Obviously, made from the ghosty bits.

 3,4,5) What is the Polynesian, Finnish, or Gaelic term for this?  Use
it, just as we use Mana for the Luck and Magic equivalent of Potential
Energy.

 6) Some other language that none of us knows too well to ignore any
connotations the term might have to native speakers (ex: anyone here
know Apache or Navajo?  No one ever broke the code used by the
Codetalkers, so this might be good.  Assuming that the terms can be
spelled or pronounced, of course.

 7) Psychon - a particle of n dimensions (where n >= 3, and may be much
higher) whose total spin is 1, but can be polarized along any axis
(i.e., Concentrated in the Spiritism, Theism, Essentialism, possibly
Lunar axes), or in superpositions of the single axis states (Donandar,
or Teshnan magic, etc., possibly Lunar).


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