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yama no tamago - translated by drinkytengu ok, keeping in mind that i don't speak japanese... i tried to find the translations of the new EI names. this is what i came up with. if anyone reading this spots any glaring errors please let me know, ok? yama = japanese lord of death? (i've seen others say yama means mountain, but all the searches i did came up with lord of death.) tamago = egg? kami = spirits? umu = oven? ki = life force? tama = soul/spirit? piecing it all together it might be: yama no tamago = egg of the lord of death? yama no kami no tamago = spirit of egg of lord of death? also: umu-ki = oven life force? hi-no-tama = will o' the wisp? (will o' the wisp are the ghostly lights sometimes seen at night or twilight — often over bogs.) kami-no-ki = spirits of life force? what do you think? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ edit i wrote to drinkytengu and asked what it meant. lol i was way off on some of it!

Posted by: snufflypoo Mon Jun 30, 2008 @ 09:12pm

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Commented on: Tue Jul 01, 2008 @ 03:57am


	The forums seem to be all over the place on this one. smile Personally I like the tree that comes with it, beyond that...shrug I just really wish that they would ease up a bit on the EI's. It's getting to be too much and flooding the MP in an ugly way. I wish they would only do one or two a month and let the others evolve a bit more first. xp

Commented on: Tue Jul 01, 2008 @ 07:04am


	Oh, didn't see this but yes, he's right. by itself though ki can also mean energy, it's the semi equivalent to chi in chinese. though it does also mean tree, and in this instance It's tree as it's referring to the tree itself. Umu does indeed mean to give birth so he was correct in that it's the tree of birth so to speak. yama no kami no tomago - would mean egg of the mountain spirit (god) (kami technically means spirit but the spirits of natures are worshipped as gods in shinto, so spirit and god are interchangeable in that sense) kami no ki would be spirit's (gods) tree. as for hi no tama, you're very close. hi means fire and tama tends to mean ball or globe, so it'd be fire's ball or ball of fire. which could be seen as a will-o-the wisp even without the indication of soul or spirit.

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Commented on: Tue Jul 01, 2008 @ 09:56pm


	thank you boxcey (and drinky) for the translations! redface

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