[Glorantha] Re: Changing Gods

From: Gianfranco Geroldi <giangero>
Date: Mon Jan 23 11:00:08 2006

People, as I understand it, gods can't change or if they change, they are subjected to forces and issues far beyond human comprehension.

I compare the whole Orlanth-is-dead (or Sunstop affair fwiw)accident to our percetpion of the Sun. 4000 years ago, Egyptians called it Amon or Ra or Aton and they had rituals and myths than worked in influencing the Sun, according to their own perception
(the Sun rise and fall, the seasons, the crops, the
nile flows etc). Then the Greeks or the Babylonians had other perceptions of the Sun, as Apollo or Helios or Shamash, differt myths and different 'spells' to drain power from it and to worship it.
Now we 'know' it is a star, one zillion of km afar from us and that it is not a god; anyway we build solar panels and sun sails, technological 'spells', to use its power.

Did the sun change during the 4 thousand years of different human perception? Yes, solar activicty did change a bit, but not because of human intervention
(except for atmosphere gas/filters). The thing that
hugely changed was our own way to see it, understand it and use it.

Now, you can see the Orlanth-is-Dead phenomenon as a sort of artificial satellite blocking the rays of the Sun locally and generating an artificial eclipse. Does it affect the Sun? No. Does it affect the Earth? Yes, a bit, locally and temporarily.
Does it affects the Sun worshippers? Yes, very much, because they are frightened, darkened and cold.

Ciao,
Gian                                   

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