On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:25:02 -0500, mark <whitroth@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Doug Freyburger wrote:
>> Neolithic <neolithicnos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> Neo <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> >Neolithic a ecrit :
>>> >> Bob Thomson <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
><snip>
>> There's also demonization of Loki. Plenty of Asatru newbies
>> expect a devil figure and they aren't yet familiar enough with
>> the lore to know that's Surt and his team so they target Loki
>> as their devil figure. Loki isn't anything like that simple in the
>> lore.
>>
>>> >> Its a funny word for a 'Pagan' to be using...
>>
>> He posts from the shamanism group. Shamanism is the
>> native religion of all humanity (and some decline to call it
>> a religion opening up a whole other word game) that
>> predates organized pagandom. It's not clear the word
>> pagan works in his case.
><snip>
>Oh, yes, and in Buddhism, including Tibetan, there's plenty of reference
to
>what is best translated as "demons" that try to keep you from finding the
>way to enlightenment.
We're not talking about innaccurate translations from Tibetan/Mandarin
into English though are we?
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