Re: Peorth (was Re: Death! What happens? Death!)


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from "David L. Burkhead" <david8@dax.cc.uakron.edu>
subject Re: Peorth (was Re: Death! What happens? Death!)
date Tue, 1 Oct 1996 21:44:24 -0400
At 05:35 PM 10/1/96 -0700, you wrote:
>On Mon, 30 Sep 1996, Yong Choe wrote:
>
>> > From: Hanny Lee <hlee@efn.org>
>> > Nowhere in the manga nor in the anime is it suggested that she, or any
>> > other goddesses, are immortals. 
>
>Does it say anywhere that she is mortal? C'mon, she's a goddess, and in
>most cultures goddesses and gods are immortal but can be killed. It's just
>that they don't die from old age.

     In most cultures gods and goddesses are immortal, but I'd want to see
some backing for the claim that in most cultures they can be killed.  In
most of the cultures of which I am aware this second bit does _not_ hold.
Even the immortal (in the sense of never growing old and dying) is not
universal.  In Norse myth, for instance, the deities have no inate
immortality.  It is only the golden apples that keep them young so that they
never have to worry about death by old age. (When's the last time you've
seen one of the A!MS cast eating any golden apples?)

     Also "god" and "goddess" are nothing more than labels.  You can apply
them to anything you like.  Tell me, how many cultures have gods and
goddesses that can be called on my dialing a wrong number in trying to order
takeout?  How many use computers?  How many gods and goddesses are "system
managers" and "debuggers" for universe controlling computer systems?

     Belldandy, Urd, Skuld, et al don't seem to have any connection whatever
with any culture's gods and goddesses.  Assuming that they have one
particular set of characteristics, when they don't have any of the others
except some labels (the term "goddess" and the names), and indeed, blatantly
contradict many of the established characteristics is overassuming in the
extreme.

David L. Burkhead
david8@dax.cc.uakron.edu


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