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/wiki/%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.
