[Glorantha] Re: The One True God (was: Ompalam)

From: David Weihe <blerg2>
Date: Mon Jul 24 20:00:05 2006

> Mikko:
> >I was wondering if the "creator" of the monotheistic west
> >has an origin story like that in the early times? Was the
> >West always like it is now, with one supreme deity?

Trotsky:
> No. Malkioni myths stretch back consistently to the Golden
> Age (or as consistently as any myths do, anyway) and, in
> those myths, God has always been a single ultimate being,
> venerated through sorcery/wizardry.
 

> To say otherwise would be, to me, tantamount to saying that
> Malkionism is objectively 'wrong' in some of its most
> central tenets.

OTOH, a number of Malkioni stories imply that "proper" Monotheism is fairly recent; from the Ice Age to the Return To Rightness Crusades they were mainly monolatrous (worshipping one god, which they considered the god of gods, while believing in many subordinates - the Ehilms, Worlaths, etc. - which got lesser worship, much like Heortlings give Kero Fin or other Landscape Dieties). BTW, this is like the RW Hebrews, according to some readings of the OT - monolatrous until about Elijah, then more strictly monotheistic, in the Judean version of the religion, at least, until it was totally monotheistic by the Return
>From Babylonian Exile.

This monolatry is now called Paganism, but echoes of the older forms will remain in peasant festivals and heroplane encounters. This seems to be what Mikko is looking for.

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