[medved]

Whoa. You mean that folks like Merlin and other Pagans were really magicians tapping into some force that has been exhausted (or removed by some other means) and that this "mana" (for lack of a better term) was usefull in transforming oneself at will (magical evolution)?

Merlin, if he ever existed at all, lived within the Christian era; the kind of thing I am talking about appears to have died out altogether about 2500 years ago and was in its heyday before the flood, 3500 - 4000 years ago.

[Junior]

You mean that folks like Merlin and other Pagans were really magicians tapping into some force that has been exhausted (or removed by some other means) and that this "mana" (for lack of a better term) was usefull in transforming oneself at will (magical evolution)?

That's no more weird than believing, for instance, that the Earth once orbitted Saturn...

[EBUCK]

I was under the impression that Merlin was the last great pagan. I could be wrong, I don't spent a lot of time dealing with limey history (fiction or non).

So what did this force/power/agent consist of? I have seen/read about some expirements with UV depravation resulting in much larger (giant-man species explanation was the purpose if I remember) and robust animals. But I've never seen anything scientific related to what you are putting out here. Got any data for me to look at?

EBUCK