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Today if you call someone a "genius" you probably mean they are some kind of super brain, a high intellect, an "Einstein".
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Yet the original meaning of the word was far different to this. The word is originally a highly important religious belief of the Roman tribes and means " one through whom the spirits speak".. |
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Traditionally the Romans believed each person had two attendant tutelary (teaching) spirits- a good genii and bad genii- hence evil genius, good genius had the ability to communicate to their attendant spirits- one, being a "good genii" and the other "bad genii". |
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That we lose sight of the original meanings to words is unfortunate, for many of the answers to the questions you seek rest in seeking to understand what you actually mean. In many cases, the conflicts you find in trying to find answers may even reside in the conflicting historical meanings of the word itself. |
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