[Glorantha] Re: Godi - how do we define them in HQ

From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20>
Date: Fri Dec 9 14:00:07 2005

> Glad you agree, if they had to be devotees they
> would be poorly named
> given the origional Norse context.

I'd be very wary of assuming a term used by Issaries carries the same meaning as the same term used in the original context, whether that be Norse or anything else. A quick look at the term "odal" will show why my wariness: it's used by Issaries for almost exactly the opposite meaning of the real one!

Anyway, the Orlanthi aren't Norse...

> I also get a distinctimpression that very
> early tribes around the dawning had far less formal,
> almost animistic in
> flavour styles of worship, and Godi are possibly a
> remnent of this
> personal relationship style of theism.

Less formal and more personal than what? The Orlanthi religion as I understand it is anything but formal, and based very much on a personal relationship with one's deities.                 

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