On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 03:29:31PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:11:20AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > > Feel free to propose alternatives from, say, the origional mythology which > > spawned the concept of daemons as beings which were not inherently good or > > evil, then. > > I'm not sure such a thing exists, since one of the basic points of > demons/devils was to "demonize" gods from other religions. I see that I was a bit too circumspect. Try 'Greek'. Like so many other things in certain religions, 'demon' is borrowed from (and a corruption of) a much older source. For more information, I suggest googling on 'bsd daemon history'. -- Joel Baker <fenton@debian.org> ,''`. Debian GNU/KLNetBSD(i386) porter : :' : `. `' `-
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