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Have become metaphors, perhaps, but that is not their original role. The Buddha stepped away from religious ritual as a means to moksha and eventually from the other regions practices of his days, tapas and kama, but never rejected the gods as such, merely making them irrelevant in the long run, so,...

Well, okay, except, of course, that the local religion (at least in NE India) was there first and Buddhism grew out of it or (elsewhere) was imposed on it. The role of the gods is important throughout the Jataka tales and much other early Buddhist lore and vital for much of the popular support of mo...

Buddhism allows many gods but they arenot ultimately real.
But then, neither are we.j

A case in point from another thread. It is supposed to mean "is not ultimately real" and it might mean "is not at the end". I would probably just say "pini ala' for "not finished."

Yes and no. You have to take others into account because you want to be understood. Too often a private expression misses because the reader doesn't get to the same place as the writer.

Prob 'kin la' rather than 'en la'.
nasin sewi Puta li ken e jan sewi mute. taso ona li lon pini ala.

sina Jo e nasin sewi wan poka nasin sewi ante kepeken nasi seme? Nasin sewi sina li ante mute tan sama.

But that is not "time", at some appropriate level.

Well, I meant with the additive -multiplicative system(numbers not numerals), but I notice even here you have a new wrinkle: 'tenpo' and the number of repetitions of the numeral as a post posited modifier. Convenient, but why - English aside - use 'tenpo' rather than 'sitelen', say? Or 'sijelo'?

And, if it is 'wan', 'tu' or 'luka' it is additive, but 'mute' or 'Ali' it is multiplicative. More and more complex, with the additive parts before the multiplicative being a multiplier as a whole and the additive parts after being additive again. What do you do with something like 125000, which see...