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Gryphon
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Sep-24-10, 07:43 PM (EDT) |
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3. "RE: Three Afterlife Questions"
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>First one: In this version of Norse cosmology, where do non-warriors >go when they die? In the normal version, they go to Hel, whether >they've been good or not, but that seems rather grim and dark for UF. UF's Hel isn't bad. It's certainly nothing like Hell with two ls; that's Muspelheim (or Niflheim, depending on which circle of Dante's version you're thinking of). It's just not that interesting compared with Valhalla, which is really not a downside to most regular people. (It's also worth noting that the definition of "warrior" is pretty broad, often to the point of being metaphorical, these days. I mean, you get guys like Tesla going to Valhalla, the only war he fought in life was against direct current. :) >Second: Where do Cephirans go when they die? Cephiro appears to have its own parallel afterlife, about which little is known. It's not nearly so simple for living persons to travel there (and back) as it is to wander among the Nine Worlds. >Third: Surtur threatened to burn the Nine Worlds in fire, as the >prophecy stated, but what would have happened to Cephiro if the >Ragnarok had gone off as planned? It's not one of the Nine Worlds >mentioned. No, but it is in between two of them, so I would guess it would at least have sustained serious damage - in much the same way that the middle floors of a building that's been set on fire at the top and bottom would be in the ensuing blaze. --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Admin Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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Vehrec
Member since Feb-21-09
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Nov-29-10, 06:06 PM (EDT) |
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9. "RE: One Deity Question"
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>>After all, the Norse are decidedly >>lacking in undead primordial goddesses with eight thunder demons >>wriggling inside their corpses like maggots, who destroy a thousand >>humans every day! > >I'm, uh... I have to say I'm OK with that. > >--G. >-><- >Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Admin >Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ >Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. I take it you are not entirely familiar with the Japanese myth of the Male who Invites and Female who Invites, full of marriage, birth, death and terrible oaths to create and destroy life? Specifically, Izanami is fun to ask about because some of her antics in the 'Shin Megami Tensai: Persona' universe would simply not have flown in a universe where the cops can call on the BRPD for a little help when murder victims appear strung up on TV antennae with no obvious COD. :D “Navigare Necesse Est”-'Get me out of here!' Group Captain Konstantin Vehrec |
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Gryphon
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Nov-29-10, 06:13 PM (EDT) |
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10. "RE: One Deity Question"
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>I take it you are not entirely familiar with the Japanese myth of the >Male who Invites and Female who Invites, full of marriage, birth, >death and terrible oaths to create and destroy life? I'm not really familiar with Japanese myths, full stop, but no, I think I can safely say I've never heard of that one at all before. And it doesn't sound like my cup of tea, particularly. I think that's why I like the Norse myths best, of those I've read and developed at least a passing familiarity with. Unlike the Greek ones, they don't have quite as many examples of angry people taking hideous, disproportionate revenge on the wrong parties in disputes (cf. all those cases in which Zeus rapes some hapless maiden, who is then further brutalized by a vengeful Hera for her trouble); unlike, say, the Hindi ones, they tend to make at least a little sense; and unlike the Abrahamic ones, they generally don't cause modern political figures to inconvenience me in various indirect ways. The Æsir just... haven't done that much to confuse or annoy me. From what I've seen here and elsewhere, the Japanese ones seem like they would fit largely into category B, with a side helping of A ("hideous violence offered to people who don't really seem like they deserve it"). :) --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Admin Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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