No ancient group that I know of has ever considered medicine to be the same thing, although to be fair many considered them closely related.
-Aris On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 12:16 AM, Cuddle Beam <cuddleb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wait, medicine and religion aren't the same thing? Ha, the next thing > you'll tell me is that prayer doesn't heal and that the world is round! > > On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 8:51 AM, Aris Merchant < > thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Could be, but now you're talking about a different theme with the >> religion one. I like the aesthetic of religion as a part of ancient >> life more than medicine, although I suppose both are accurate. >> >> -Aris >> >> On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 1:38 AM, Cuddle Beam <cuddleb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hrm, Miasma could work as a more granular kind of system than cards. >> Maybe >> > have Miasma go from 0 to 100, and minor punishments grant 0-25 Miasma, >> > while more severe ones grant 25-50. You'd lose 10 Miasma each month, and >> > depending on how much Miasma you've got, you'd be more or less "sick" >> with >> > different crippling effects (Just the regular "less Agoran decision >> power" >> > comes to mind). >> > >> > On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 3:02 AM, Ørjan Johansen <oer...@nvg.ntnu.no> >> wrote: >> > >> >> On Wed, 28 Feb 2018, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> >> >> >> Ok folks, what's a set of religious terms for Blots, punishment, >> temples, >> >>> and penance that won't be too culturally loaded for anyone? Keeping to >> the >> >>> Agoran theme, something ancient Greece and pleasing the gods? Or >> something >> >>> else (a little leery after the Karma/Eta thing annoyed some people). >> >>> >> >> >> >> If you want ancient Greece, I think you may be looking for the word >> >> "Miasma". From <https://en.wiktionary.org/wik >> >> i/%CE%BC%CE%AF%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%BC%CE%B1#Ancient_Greek>: >> >> >> >> μῐ́ασμᾰ • (míasma) n (genitive μῐάσμᾰτος); third declension >> >> 1.pollution, defilement [quotations ▼] >> >> 2.shameful action, crime >> >> >> >> The English plural can be either Miasmas or Miasmata. >> >> >> >> Mind you, that's definitely not pleasing the gods, quite the opposite. >> See >> >> also <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miasma_(Greek_mythology)> and >> >> possibly <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miasma_theory>. >> >> >> >> Greetings, >> >> Ørjan. >> >> >>
