[Glorantha] Re: Changing Gods

In message <1137765433.43d0ec39a249c@www1.helsinki.fi> Topi =?iso-8859-1?b?UGl0a+RuZW4=?= writes:

>> 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.
>
>Then why do we have the mythology of Vinga? The way I see it, Vinga is
>a way (among many other things that she is) to tell how Orlanth changed.
>
>"Her worshippers understand that she is Orlanth's compassion." ST 170
>
>If you read the myth this way, you will find out how the god changed.
>Living with Ernalda, becoming her, being Orlanthdovar, learning empathy,
>learning from mistakes, and getting fed up with injusticies - Orlanth's
>character grew like Vinga grew. Of course, Orlanth also remained the
>eternal same like gods do. Myths have power to tell both side stories.

It might not be clear from the sources but all this was before The Compromise and before Time. It was The Compromise that made the gods unable to change of their own volition.

It's why if you want to change a god you have to HQ before Time.

>I think afterwards Orlanth related to The Great Compromise differently.
>[after the windstop, that is]
>
>Thus,
>
>"The shape of the world was changed. The way the nature works was
>changed. The way men and women related to the world was different.
>The way that Gods and mortals communicated was altered." to quote
>Argrath's deeds.
>
>My Issaries goods are still on the changing side.

None of that implies that Orlanth changed even if it isn't a bard exaggerating his patron's achievements.

-- 
Donald Oddy
http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/