MDDM: Ch 34 - Notes and Questions

[Scott Badger]

Rob:
> >> What's "mariform"?
> >>
> >John:
> > At first I thought it was something like variform but with a watery
bent,
> ie
> > marine, or something, perhaps it's prone to flooding? But apparently
> > mariform is a term in it's own right, though I've only found two people
to
> > have ever used it in history, and that's a couple of Low Countries
> mystics,
> > the Venerable Michael of St Augustine (d. 1684) and the Venerable Mary
of
> St
> > Teresa Petijt/Petyt (d. 1677). I believe it's something to do with the
> > Carmelites, and the word refers to the Virgin Mary, and the belief that
> the
> > faithful should become a new Mary.
>
> Interesting, but it doesn't seem to fit the context at all. Perhaps it is
a
> misprint for "variform".

I read it as a marine version of "TERRAform"...

American Heritage: terraform - To transform (a landscape) on another planet
into one having the characteristics of landscapes on Earth.

Wouldn't be the only time that 'another planet' comes up in M&D.

Scott Badger