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<p>Posted by <b><!--poster-->Irgend Jemand</b>
on <!--date-->19:59 8/8/01
<p>In reply to: <a href="127.html">Almea as an allegory</a> posted by Panu Petteri Höglund</b> on 5:31 8/8/01
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Hey, when I first read the description of the ktuvoki- big; physically kinda
invincible; enslaving people to impress their females- I thought Mark might have
thought of childhood bullies or so when he invented them. But never mind; if you
had followed my e-mail exchanges with Mark, you'd know that I've made far more
wrong interpretations of Almean stuff than enough.
<p>But when we're at it, Mark, I guess the Ilii are some kind of your Utopia, just
unfortunately so perfect that you had to make them another species; and Cuzei is
some kind of watered-down version of that which is suitable for humans. There are
also a lot of hints of many things in Terran history throughout Almea, but as
far as I can tell, most of them are value-neutral.
<p>As for understanding why people are the way they are, that clearly beats just
saying that they're evil, but you can even be biased there. For instance, you
could just say that those people believe in (fill in some political/religious
belief you don't like here) because they where programmed to believe that (fill
in the same or something related to it here) nosense by our (and fill it in once
more) society.
<p>Or in Verduria, an Eledhe could say that "the pagans follow their wrong beliefs
because they're so materialistic that they want a religion consisting of giving
something to the gods and getting something back from them", or a pagan could
say "the Eledhe follow their wrong beliefs because they've slept through their
history classes in school and therefore don't know what the gods did for
Cadhinas and Verduria".
<p>BTW, is "shto" inflected (with the acc. "shtam") or not?
<p>IJ
<hr><i>Mark responds:
<p>That's not bad! I can indeed imagine the Eledhi and the pagans
saying that about each other. And of course you're right that
explanations can easily be simplistic and arrogant.
<p>I used to have fiercer religious views, which were reflected in Almea;
I've modified some of that, but left much of it in, because it adds
vitality. I tried to make the Cuzeian religion something that could
actually exist, and that required bringing in some of my own understanding
of spirituality. But you have to be careful; I invent some things and
make everyone flawed in some respect!
<p><b>Shto</b> is inflected like <b>eto</b>; the accusative is the same
as the nominative. (Genitive <b>shtë</b>; dative <b>shton</b>.)
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