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  "thread": {
    "id": 5787,
    "subject": "Inhumi and devils",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2010-11-30T18:52:27+00:00",
    "last": "2010-11-30T19:30:57+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<AANLkTim2Q0DowES5HWWTbC-23DQTh-0okQnRZ+e1LoSz@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Andrew Mason",
        "address": "andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com"
      },
      "date": "2010-11-30T18:52:27+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Inhumi and devils",
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          "text": "James Wynn wrote:\n\nA daemon, note the spelling, is merely a disembodied spirit. Inhumi\ncontain the spirits of others, living and dead. Mucor, at times, meets\nthis criteria. Also, an important theme is in the book is that if a\ndemon imitates a god, he becomes, in some sense, a god. Quetzal becomes\na holy man, sacrificing his life for his flock. Horn becomes Silk.\nInhumi become, in a metaphysical sense, Horn's son and Silk's sister."
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          "text": "OK, so there's a thematic similarity between inhumi and devils, which\nmakes it appropriate that Pike called them that. But if I am reading\nyou rightly, the inhumi as Pike knows them - creatures which fly in\nthrough windows and suck blood - don't possess people; rather they are\nthemselves in a sense possessed by the spirits of others whom they\nhave absorbed. (Bear in mind I haven't read _Short Sun_ yet, so don't\nknow the details.)  I still think it's unlikely the chrasmologic\nwriters has inhumi in mind."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<4CF550F1.2040901@gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "James Wynn",
        "address": "crushtv at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2010-11-30T19:30:57+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Inhumi and devils",
      "in_reply_to": "<AANLkTim2Q0DowES5HWWTbC-23DQTh-0okQnRZ+e1LoSz@mail.gmail.com>",
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          "text": "Andrew Mason-\nOK, so there's a thematic similarity between inhumi and devils, which\nmakes it appropriate that Pike called them that. But if I am reading\nyou rightly, the inhumi as Pike knows them - creatures which fly in\nthrough windows and suck blood - don't possess people; rather they are\nthemselves in a sense possessed by the spirits of others whom they\nhave absorbed. (Bear in mind I haven't read_Short Sun_  yet, so don't\nknow the details.)  I still think it's unlikely the chrasmologic\nwriters has inhumi in mind."
        },
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          "text": "Well, the inhumi are \"demonic\" but the C. writings are an accumulation \nof mythology, the Odyssey, the Gospels, Islamic tradition, and other \nwritings. So, I agree that it is unnecessary to ascribe inhumi as the \noriginal source of demons. They merely fit the Type.\n\nu+16b9"
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