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- From: c89mikho@IDA.LiU.SE (Mikael Hovmoller)
- Subject: Re: ATHAME
- In-Reply-To: rankin@eql.caltech.edu's message of 21 Nov 1992 17: 18 PDT
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 20:04:31 GMT
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- > What the heck IS an athame? I've scoured many a dictionary looking for it,
- > but have had no luck.
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- I had the same question, and more or less assumed that it was some
- sort of staff since only wizards got to have one. (That was a bad assumption
- since NetHack clearly treats it as a bladed weapon...) It's actually a type
- of dagger, sometimes (usually? always?) with a "wavy" blade. 3.1 will have
- an entry for it in the database used by the '/' command:
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- " The consecrated ritual knife of a Wiccan initiate (one of
- " four basic tools, together with the wand, chalice and
- ^^^^^^^
- " pentacle). Traditionally, the athame is a double-edged,
- " black-handled, cross-hilted dagger of between six and
- " eighteen inches length.
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- Thanks, I've wondered too. Now, what is a chalice?
- /Micke - not native in English and without a dictionary...
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