[Glorantha] Gloranthan Souls, etc.

From: "Malk Williams" <malk_at_malkavius.com> Subject: [Glorantha] Belief, Deities and their Worship.
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> There is quite a common theme in a certain sort of book, to espouse as
> fact, the idea that gods are created by the belief of their worshippers,
> and moulded into what their worshippers believe them to be.

I think this theory orriginates from the assumption that religious beliefs are essentialy false, therefore they are the invention of the believers, therefore if you assume that somehow the gods become true, they will conform to the believer's expectations. I don't think this theory shows much respect for religious beliefs.

From: CJ cj_at_falster23.freeserve.co.uk
continues the intense discussion?
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> I have had an odd thought though. In Glorantha, is Death a positive
> metaphysical state, not merely absence of life?

I've been musing on similar lines to this question while writing my last few posts. What is different about living beings?

The living seem uniquely capable of innovation, evolution, development, orriginqality. Only living beings can introduce entirely new things into glorantha. Where do they come from? Gloranthan creation myths may differ, but they generaly agree that there was an orriginal creative act from which all of glorantha proceeded. I think that in some way life itself is a connection with this orriginal point of creation, enabling innovation. Death therefore is the severing of this connection.

This theory raises the question of how Chaos fits into this scheme. I've writen about this before. A summary of my views on this can be found at the Lokarnos website.

http://lokarnos.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/1557215&mode=thread

Simon Received on Sun 08 Jan 2006 - 17:31:51 EET