From: dwayne (dwayne@pobox.com)
Date: Thu May 23 2002 - 07:05:37 MDT
Charlie Stross wrote:
> I don't know of any religions that have a soul entering the child some time
> _after_ birth, but it wouldn't surprise me too much; these things are pretty
> arbitrary.
Apparently some polynesian peoples believe that until a child speaks,
not only does it not have a soul, it does not have a name and is not
referred to as he or she but "it".
I'm not sure who this referred to, might have been New Guinean people,
but i'm fairly confident it was a polynesian thing.
Dwayne
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