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Subj: Re: On the lower shelves.
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 at 05:32:33 am EDT (Viewed 2 times)
Reply Subj: Re: On the lower shelves.
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 at 07:28:58 pm EDT (Viewed 962 times)



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      I don't know where Jarvis got the name Lo-Chi from. There's a wealth of weidliterature about Shangri-La, the Ascended Masters, the tenth planet Nibaru etc. but I suspect Jarv just liked the sound of the name.



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    If he was using Chinese as a base, I think the name means demon spirit or something similar. I don't know if it's the same in Tibet. It's one of those amusing coincidences that it's so similar to Loki - though I'm betting the latter is why Jarvis chose it.


Very possibly. All of this predates my time on the board. I think only Vizh is still alive from those days to tell this tale.


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      Of course, Lo-Chi and her Shangri-La people were influencial on the Tibetan culture, which has always been different from and often inimical to the Chinese culture.



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    The cultures are frighteningly similar when you get into myths and stories, though.


I don't know enough about them to really comment, but I think there's probably a difference in the pre-Buddhist animalist stuff.