Light Reading

[brightrosefox]

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/2938/neopagtoc.html
The links are amusing, the articles well-written, and the theories informative. This is a neat website to browse through when I'm done reading everything else I'm currently reading on the net.

Also: Luna is being so sweet my heart and brain might explode. She's started demanding my attention when I'm at my laptop and really hasn't left me alone since early this afternoon.
Adam has been at work and is currently at John's house with Billy, playing with the Wii. I'm enjoying my time with a marathon of Babylon 5. I'm almost done with Season Five. I really need to watch every single episode from the beginning. And I really really really love the Minbari religion. Oh, I love it so.

Comments

[unico-love.livejournal.com]

Babylon 5 is my best friend's favorite show:)

[poelaramont.livejournal.com]

As I am too lazy to go to Wikipedia and look it up, tell me a little about the Minbari religion, please?

[brightrosefox.livejournal.com]

*laughs*
Here, I'll copy and paste from Wikipedia for you. I do understand about being lazy!

The Minbari are a very religious people. The Minbari religion does not have a central god figure, nor does it have a pantheon of gods, though on one confusing instance in an early episode Delenn did speak of "The gods." The Minbari have a belief that the universe itself is sentient, and that the universe has the ability to break itself into many pieces and invests itself in every form of life. Thus, every being is a projection of a part of the universal soul. They believe that the universe uses the perspective of individual sentient beings in a process of self-examination and a search for meaning (similar to the real-life belief of pantheism).

Valen is a central figure in Minbari religion.[2] However, Valen is not considered a deity. He was a "Minbari not born of Minbari". About AD 1260, a fortress suddenly appeared in Minbari space, on which resided Valen flanked by Vorlons, who then led the Minbari people against the Shadows. After the war, Valen helped restructure Minbari society, organizing the Grey Council to lead it. These nine individuals came from each of the three castes. This form of government remained stable for a thousand years until the next Shadow War. Valen knew the Shadows would return and wrote prophecies to warn the Minbari when the next war was starting.[3] After these tasks were completed, Valen left Minbar; the remainder of his life and eventual fate is still a mystery, though it has since been kept a secret by the Grey Council that he did have a wife and children in self-imposed exile, most of whom returned to Minbari society in secret, had families of their own, and added human DNA to the Minbari gene pool. Minbari with human DNA are thus called "children of Valen". Delenn will eventually learn she is herself a "child of Valen".

Minbari people believe in reincarnation. They feel that after an individual has died, the soul of the individual joins with all the other departed Minbari souls. The souls then all meld together becoming one. Then the souls are reborn into the next generation of Minbari. Thus Minbari do not welcome Soul Hunters—their gathering of souls interferes with the reincarnation process. [4] This was the central reason behind the Minbari stopping their war with the humans, as they had found "that Minbari souls were reborn in human bodies" as well as the fact that the Minbari have some human DNA.[5]

Minbari respect the role of "true seekers", which Delenn explains are those who follow the calling of their hearts. Even when such a seeker's task appears to be folly, other Minbari – especially religious caste – will provide what assistance they can. This was showcased in Grail, an episode during which a human boarded Babylon 5 searching for the holy grail and Delenn aided him in his quest.[6]

[poelaramont.livejournal.com]

That is pretty interesting. Thanks!