[Glorantha] Changing the Gods

Topi Pitkanen <topi.pitkanen_at_helsinki.fi>:

>Oh, in my imagination they were just praying for a miracle.
>No predefining the nature of the miracle was going on there.
>Don't know if that be in concordance with The One God?

Pretty much all of Loskalm, and a reasonable chunk of the rest of Malkionism, is praying for the destruction of the Kingdom of War, and pagans in general and yet it doesn't happen.  

>I agree. (Allthough Sedenya teaches us that everything exists within
>a context. Choosing the correct convey it would appear that Orlanth
>is all about qualities of stasis, peace and conformity. ...

Perhaps, but the appearance would be wrong.

>But then again - the way I see 'OiD' is very much like the whole
>Dragon Pass turned into a short world shot back into Great Darkness.

An interesting idea, characterizing it as a short world-like effect may have some truth to it.

>But I believe something significant occurred with Orlanth there&then.
>Afterwards, new breathers and all, and begun the Hero Wars, doesn't
>it appear that something within Orlanth changed?

Again, only within that area. Outside it Orlanth was still fully functional so i don't see how you can say Orlanth's nature was changed.

>Orlanth changed. I bet he did.
> Besides change is the thing he does.

No more than any other god, I don't think, and less than many others. Orlanth has recognisably the same basic characteristics through all of his myths. Far more so than, say, Sedenya.

Simon Hibbs Received on Thu 19 Jan 2006 - 12:46:54 EET