Talk:Amon/@comment-184.2.60.120-20120503175305/@comment-4888161-20120504001926

If you mean the cycle, well that's easy if you read my comment. And I quote:

"It only continued again once Katara revived him."

That means it continued once Aang was revived. And the cycle being revived means the past lives were revived back from non existence into their spirit form. If you remember the episode, the spirits went out when Aang was struck in the Avatar state. But they came back when Aang was revived. None that didn't exist were created, only the past lives from before came back (again only as spirits not as living humans).

If you didn't mean the cycle, then please don't put words in my mouth. I never said "they seize to exist" or anything like that. I said that more than one can't be alive on the planet at once. The past Avatars aren't alive, they are spirits that any living Avatar can connect. The reason they are referred to as past lives is because they were the former lives in the Avatar cycle. And by former lives it means they are no longer alive. Aang is now no longer alive, and as such is a spirit just as all the other past lives are. Korra is alive so she is the only Avatar to currently be so.