tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 17 09:11:24 1996
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Re[2]: Words for "God"
Bill Hedrick writes:
> > There's only one word for "God" and that's... qeylIS or Kahless in Federation
> > standard.
> Kahless is/was not "God" he's closer to Arthur Pendragon
Yes. But it is understandable since the setup in the _Rightful_Heir_
episode was clearly a religious crisis, more akin to the Christian
belief in the second coming of Jesus. This "religious" notion of
Kahless persists in Glen Proechel's materials where he uses Jesu
Kahless to translate "Jesus Christ". I can appreciate the reasons for
doing that - and I can imagine a missionary to the Klingons might even
do such a thing to catch the attention of his/her audience, but the
title Messiah/Christ is probably better transliterated (as we
typically do in English - meSI'aH? HrISt?), since we don't have a word
for anoint - ngoHmoH?
joel anderson * [email protected] * [email protected]
mIghghachvo' yImej 'ej yIQaQ; roj yInej 'ej Dochvam yItlha'
http://pages.prodigy.com/mrklingon * [email protected]