(urth) Inhumi and devils

James Wynn crushtv at gmail.com
Tue Nov 30 11:30:57 PST 2010


> Andrew Mason-
> OK, so there's a thematic similarity between inhumi and devils, which
> makes it appropriate that Pike called them that. But if I am reading
> you rightly, the inhumi as Pike knows them - creatures which fly in
> through windows and suck blood - don't possess people; rather they are
> themselves in a sense possessed by the spirits of others whom they
> have absorbed. (Bear in mind I haven't read_Short Sun_  yet, so don't
> know the details.)  I still think it's unlikely the chrasmologic
> writers has inhumi in mind.

Well, the inhumi are "demonic" but the C. writings are an accumulation 
of mythology, the Odyssey, the Gospels, Islamic tradition, and other 
writings. So, I agree that it is unnecessary to ascribe inhumi as the 
original source of demons. They merely fit the Type.

u+16b9



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