[Glorantha] The Goddess is Cheesecake

From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20>
Date: Thu Aug 17 20:00:45 2006

• Greg Stafford <greg_at_glorantha.com> wrote:

> More important, ?must be the manifestation of a
> cheesecake god? is not
> necessarily true either. If it were so, then we?d
> have to assume there
> is a strawberry cheesecake god, a blueberry
> cheesecake god, .....

I do hope not. I have enough problems remembering all the new names as it is.

> The cheesecake entity could very likely be a
> manifestation of the Cake
> God, or the Cheese God for that matter.
> Though maybe there is no such entity as the Cake God
> at all. Maybe it
> is just the Baked Goods God.
> Though maybe there is only a Nurturing God, or a
> Digestive God, or a Yummy Things God.

Hmm, good point. And would it be true to say that the extent to which these are either separate beings, or all aspects of the higher levels, is dependent on our perception of them? That we can perceive a greater Yummy Things God with many aspects, or a multiplicity of <cheesecake flavour> gods, and in fact both are true at some level? Ernalda's daughters both exist in their own right and as aspects of Ernalda? Orlanth Goodvoice and Issaries are both "true" perceptions of the same thing?

> Let?s say Mr. Cook has devised a cheesecake recipe,
> and wants to make
> sure it is not the work of the devil, and goes to
> the God World to
> find the correct link with the Spiritual Cheesecake.

So he has produced his cheesecake, in the mundane? That wasn't impossible? Could it have been impossible to produce on the mundane, if no Cheesecake aspect of some higher level being existed? (Though I have problems visualising anything that *isn't* covered by one higher principle or another, in Glorantha.)

> There it is, in
> all is mouth-watering reality. ...
> This is still probably the Cake God, not a specific
> Cheesecake God.
> Remember that the quester always brings with him
> certain and necessary
> powers of perception that provoke manifestation of
> the object sought.
> The Cake Gods has many forms.

But the chances of the Yummy Things god having an aspect that produced Deadly Nightshade Pie is presumably low to impossible. You have to pick the right overall archetype, and things that fit well have a better chance than things that fit badly.                 

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