The Nenns
[Introduction - survey]
On Ooranye the human species which
most resembles us is that of the Nenns. They would pass for Earth
people as far as appearance is concerned, except that their skin is
steel-grey. Their lifespan is approximately the same as ours: on
average one Uranian year, or 84 Earth years. Judging by our
standards, we of Earth have to admit that strength and good looks are
taken for granted among the Nenns, as is their virtually
complete freedom from disease.
Perhaps from
our point of view the most startling thing about the Nenns is their
absolute certainty of limited reincarnation. A Nenn knows
that nen has two or
three lives, almost always widely separated in time. Moreover, during the second life
(hardly any have yet attained to a third one), nen
remembers the first. The memory is dreamlike and somewhat hazy like
a very old photograph, but there is no doubt that it imparts real
information.
We now provide, from the Nenn point of view, a short
survey of the human geography of Ooranye.
Cities:
(The disc-on-stem cities and
their contados. The cities of Oirr. The freightshuttle
exits and the "Other Syoom". Settlements in the Mountains of
Flame. Plains settlements.)
Institutions:
(The Noadex
and the dayonnad. The Sunnoadex. The Corrector.
Other institutions. Military ranks and
units.)
Languages:
(Nouuan. Jommdan.
Lrissj.)
Mentality:
(The World Spirit.
"Recycling" of souls. The teleology syndrome and its effect on the
Uranian mentality. Syoom and Fyaym. Wayfaring and
cartography.)
Names:
(Self-naming. The effect of reincarnation.
The exception of the Vanadium Era.)
Units of
Measurement:
(Dreathe's Theorem confirmed.)
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