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11-11-2010, 09:43 PM
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Scott Washburn's "Aftermath" had an interesting idea where the Na'vi use the ritual to transfer memories from one Tsahik to the next, when the old Tsahik is dying. The mother's spirit isn't transplanted into her daughter's in the way they were attempting with Grace and Jake, but her memories are (including the memories she inherited from her own mother). In this way, the clan's history is preserved from one generation to the next.
In this "traditional" case, the recipient isn't an empty vessel, so only the memories are transferred, not the entire "soul." The avatars, by contrast, ARE empty vessels when the driver isn't linking with it, so Mo'at probably deduced that the ritual could potentially allow the "soul" to completely inhabit the avatar body.
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All Avatar writings ------------------- Selected writings: You came back How do you make up after you've done the unforgivable? Jake and Neytiri have a conversation in the wake of Hometree's destruction, during their first real moment alone following his return as Toruk Makto. The Last Train Home Fourteen years after the war, a lone spaceship appears in the sky. The former members of the Avatar program watch its approach – expecting the worst, fearing for their adopted home. Then the ship lands. And suddenly, nothing makes sense anymore. Five seconds too late This is a different kind of Jake/Neytiri romance, the story that would've unfolded had she been delayed for just five seconds while trying to reach him following the fight with Quaritch. 
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