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You will respect my "authority" Roland00 Send a noteboard - 06/04/2018 06:22:20 PM

You will respect my "authority," authorities are good words to describe God like powers.


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Is there a word one would use that would encompass the entirety of the holy arsenal of a pantheon of gods? For any pantheon? Or a word for all holy weapons generally?

I do not know what you mean by this. No there are different ways you can call things weapons of the gods and that is because there are lots of myths and some myths describe weapons of the gods:

1) by their effects,
2) other myths by what the weapon is supposed to represent such as concepts of
A) authority (where I get power, or I have power in this sphere, or why I get to order you)
B) or origin (tying to the original of things)
3) and some myths make holy weapons due to them being sanctified and thus separate from the material world and that is why something is "holy."

So for me to pick a word for what you are trying to describe I need more idea of what your intent is with your mind since I am not a mind reader and I do not know what you are trying to describe. Please explain more what you are trying to convey, is this role-playing or something?, and I will pick a better word. My real goal is for you to explain what you are trying to convey with your word choice, what your intent is so I can pick a better word. I am asking a question in order to give you an better answer with the goal of a best answer.

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(pivots)

But since I do not know your intent let me just pick your intent and substitute in so you can have a good enough answer.

Sanskrit and thus Hindu but also other cultures, religions, and so on. Have a word known as Astra अस्त्र.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra_(weapon)

Astras are supernatural weapons tied up with other beings and they are called Astras but you also often invoke the name of the source of the Astra when you use the weapon. For example Brahmaastra is tied to the God Brahma which in many myths of the various cultures is a god of creation (sometimes there are other gods of creation but Brahma is the most popular one.)



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Do not quote me on the next part for I am doing this from memory and I may be making a language / history mistake. Now many of the languages have a common origin with the proto indo european branch into 10 or 12 branches and those branches then developing into roughly 500 languages. There is a greek word ἄστρον astḗr which is similar and probably shares the same origin as the sanskrit word tārā तारा. We also get the English word star from a derivative of this word as also the Latin stēlla, the Dutch ster, German Stern, etc. We also get other words such as disaster and Astro / Astros from this root .

The thing I can't remember is if sanskrit word tārā तारा and the sanskrit Astra अस्त्र are connected. My head intuitively says yes they are connected but I can't remember if this is true historically or if this is a human pattern recognition error where I am making a mistake with language.

(whatever Chorabliss would say I am talking too much )

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(pivots back)

But yeah what do you want to convey Aerocontrols?

Regardless Astra is a good choice.

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