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Assume you mean applied rather than coined. Avatar in Hinduism = form / skin / incarnation
by bobsil1 6y ago
Assume you mean applied rather than coined. Avatar in Hinduism = form / skin / incarnation
- kragen 6y agoYeah, of course I didn't mean they invented the word, just a new sense of it. It isn't the literal sense from Hinduism because game players aren't gods, and because typically the characters they play in the games don't exist until the players incarnate in them, but it's clearly a metaphorical extension of the Hindu concept, as explained in the article I linked above.