Is there an antonym for homunculus? Or an obvious way to construct it in Latin?
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Megalomunculus (tweaked the spelling a bit) is the candidate to beat. Going once, going twice…
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Would the idea be that our body stands in a similar relation to this megalomumculus as the homunculus does to our body in the Cartesian theater conception?
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Homulone? Hmm. Doesn’t have the necessary ring to it
Otoh previous candidate probably translates to “little megalon” … which is just wrong enough to not work… I wish it did
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Homunculus comes from the diminutive “-culus” for “little man”. I don’t know of the Latin augmentative suffixes, but Italian has “-one”, so… homulone? Big man?
A cult-egregore is definitely one kind of antonym but seems a bit too specific 🤔
I guess I’m going for the concept “the larger Cartesian theater within which the human is the homunculus”
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