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Arelu Notes - Today I learned....
2 years ago
In world building for the Arelu Leweway stories that I've still only managed to write fragments of- tales of an alien traveling aboard the living starship Melissa from world to world helping others and leaning about how things are done among other cultures I established the Star League of Elom.
Elom being a world orbiting the star Eloheim inhabited by the silver haired and eyes tall near Humans known as the Elo. The Elo have a natural ability to manipulate their own electromagnetic fields and this attribute is used to operate much of their technology. Within in the setting the Elo are central founders of the Star League which is a loose confederation joined together by a common spirituality.
The benevolence of the Elo, their unifying fellowship and morality is what makes them angelic like in what I've planned. Well, today I learned about Psalms 82 where upon the world Eloheim is translated as either judge or god (lower g not big g). I also learned how Psalms 82:6 is used by the New Age community.
Given as I started writing the lore of the world of Arelu at a time when I was curious about those beliefs I suppose that curiosity influenced my world building. The full chapter of Psalms 82, it's meaning when taking into context, has me a little uncomfortable featuring the Elo as they are currently in my notes.
Though part of me thinks it's made better by that... overall I'm conflicted. On one hand it's still a fitting name for the Elo, but on the other it does gives some uncertainty regarding the Star League.
All I was aiming for was to depict a loose spiritual union (a confederacy sharing common spirituality) in a positive way as secular or athiestic leaning sci-fi tends to put spiritualistic societies in a negative light. I wanted to change that, have their beliefs and morality what makes them egalitarian (the 'all men are created equal' route) and compassionate for all life. Why no matter how hard things are they keep going with hope for betterment. I wanted to show how faith can bring people together rather than feature it as a devisive force.
I suppose a quick fix would be changing the name of the Elo, their world, and the star it orbits- yet some how I still feel it's fitting. Even given that biblical chapter. Eloheim is used elsewhere in the bible, and I did intend for the Elo to be angelic like. At the same time I made it a very constant point that they are not worshipped- the spirituality of the Star League originated on Elom so their culture is at a central position in the league but they are not gods. I suppose this is something I'll have to work out.
Elom being a world orbiting the star Eloheim inhabited by the silver haired and eyes tall near Humans known as the Elo. The Elo have a natural ability to manipulate their own electromagnetic fields and this attribute is used to operate much of their technology. Within in the setting the Elo are central founders of the Star League which is a loose confederation joined together by a common spirituality.
The benevolence of the Elo, their unifying fellowship and morality is what makes them angelic like in what I've planned. Well, today I learned about Psalms 82 where upon the world Eloheim is translated as either judge or god (lower g not big g). I also learned how Psalms 82:6 is used by the New Age community.
Given as I started writing the lore of the world of Arelu at a time when I was curious about those beliefs I suppose that curiosity influenced my world building. The full chapter of Psalms 82, it's meaning when taking into context, has me a little uncomfortable featuring the Elo as they are currently in my notes.
Though part of me thinks it's made better by that... overall I'm conflicted. On one hand it's still a fitting name for the Elo, but on the other it does gives some uncertainty regarding the Star League.
All I was aiming for was to depict a loose spiritual union (a confederacy sharing common spirituality) in a positive way as secular or athiestic leaning sci-fi tends to put spiritualistic societies in a negative light. I wanted to change that, have their beliefs and morality what makes them egalitarian (the 'all men are created equal' route) and compassionate for all life. Why no matter how hard things are they keep going with hope for betterment. I wanted to show how faith can bring people together rather than feature it as a devisive force.
I suppose a quick fix would be changing the name of the Elo, their world, and the star it orbits- yet some how I still feel it's fitting. Even given that biblical chapter. Eloheim is used elsewhere in the bible, and I did intend for the Elo to be angelic like. At the same time I made it a very constant point that they are not worshipped- the spirituality of the Star League originated on Elom so their culture is at a central position in the league but they are not gods. I suppose this is something I'll have to work out.
