The Bible in Almea

Jeos Thegimis · Post by **Jeos Thegimis** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 5:24 pm

well, the Elenicoi, I would think, probably didn't figure it was a different planet, just an unknown land, so when translated, my guess is they substituted Earth for Almea.

Rory · Post by **Rory** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 5:54 pm

Good point. But wouldn't they get a bit suspicious when they couldn't return to Greece?

Warmaster · Post by **Warmaster** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 5:57 pm

Jeos Thegimis wrote:well, the Elenicoi, I would think, probably didn't figure it was a different planet, just an unknown land, so when translated, my guess is they substituted Earth for Almea.

a lot of people, including zomp thought this, until they remembered that there are THREE moons on Almea

Mecislau · Post by **Mecislau** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 6:21 pm

Warmaster wrote:
Jeos Thegimis wrote:well, the Elenicoi, I would think, probably didn't figure it was a different planet, just an unknown land, so when translated, my guess is they substituted Earth for Almea.
a lot of people, including zomp thought this, until they remembered that there are THREE moons on Almea

Could not there be three moons in this strange, heathen land?

Jeos Thegimis · Post by **Jeos Thegimis** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 6:24 pm

Rory wrote:Good point. But wouldn't they get a bit suspicious when they couldn't return to Greece?

Well, I guess they figured they were blown significantly off course, and with no knowledge of Greece there, they wouldn't make it back.

Post by **zompist** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 9:03 pm

Shm Jay wrote:About the only thing that must be read are the Psalms and Proverbs. The Eledhat Bible must be quite similar to those little pocket New Testaments the Gideons hand out. Certainly Acts must be skipped over (who are the Romans?), and what about Revelation?

No, Acts is understandable enough. The New Testament has a thematic coherence to it that makes it fairly accessible... it's about one event (one life), and about all you need to know about the times is that the Romans ruled the Jews.

Revelation (so Dekashi Ihanon) is more obscure-- but hey, it's prophetic literature, and frankly, obscurity only makes prophecy more successful. (Almean interpretations are of course very different from terrestrials'; for instance, a popular interpretation of the "ten horns" of Revelation is that they represent the ten lineages of men from the Count of Years.

The full Eledhe scriptures are by no means small, since they also include the entire Cuzeian holy books, plus the Book of Mihel.

Rory wrote:Genesis is very important - well, the first few chapters at least. Likewise are the prophetic books such as Daniel.

I didn't know the Almeans had the Bible (my knowledge of Almea is restricted to the languages, tbh). This poses some interesting questions on interpretation of scripture - for example, who created Almea? Why is it not mentioned in the bible? When "heaven and earth" are made anew, what happens to Almea?

God created Almea, of course, as related in the Count of Years. Almeans are no more bothered that Almea isn't mentioned than Chinese Christians are bothered that China isn't mentioned. As for the end times, these are covered in the prophetic bits of the Cuzeian scriptures as well as the Book of Mihel.

And how did the Greeks integrate themselves without any wars or battles breaking out?

There was only one shipload of them, so they were not exactly a nation. Their coming did lead to a war, or rather galvanized one that was already underway: the Av?lan revolt against the Kebreni.

Das J · Post by **Das J** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 11:22 pm

zompist wrote:Almean interpretations are of course very different from terrestrials'...

Now that's a topic for a long paper, right there.

Are the groups and characters in the Bible used as metaphors? I can visualize passionate Verdurian sermons where the Dhekhnami are represented as the Romans with the people of Sarnae or something as the Jews.

Rory - NLI · Post by **Rory - NLI** » Mon Nov 10, 2003 7:30 am

zompist wrote:There was only one shipload of them, so they were not exactly a nation. Their coming did lead to a war, or rather galvanized one that was already underway: the Av?lan revolt against the Kebreni.

Ah right, thank you. As I said, I know nothing of Almean history.

I have some more questions for you, but they'll wait until I get home.

So Haleza Grise · Post by **So Haleza Grise** » Mon Nov 10, 2003 4:12 pm

Rory - NLI wrote:
zompist wrote:There was only one shipload of them, so they were not exactly a nation. Their coming did lead to a war, or rather galvanized one that was already underway: the Av?lan revolt against the Kebreni.
Ah right, thank you. As I said, I know nothing of Almean history.

I can only urge Rory (and everyone else, for that matter) to check out the Historical Atlas - it has answers to many Almean history questions, as well as being some of the most interesting material in Virtual Verduria.