[Glorantha] Re: Glorantha Digest, Vol 12, Issue 435

> How far do most people think the gods have spread, geographically? We have
> a
> rough split of Theism in the middle, Mysticism in the East, Monotheism in
> the
> West, but does that really form the bounds?

No, there are Theistic Gods in the East and West, animistic spirits all over the places, and Monotheism (in one form or another) all over as well. remember that the World is Mixed - no place is one thing to the exclusion of the others. There are beings (daimons, spirits, essences) spread all over the world. Some areas may tend towards one or another, like brown sugar in a coffecake, but for the most part, all places have all types of beings.

> For instance, we have Carmanian worshippers of Humakt, who seems different
> there than he is in Sartar. Does Lhankor Mhy show up in Kralorela, for
> instance? Are the sea gods on both continents the same?

Worship of Gods has been driven by migrations, missionary work, etc. Hum'akt (or however the Carmanians spell it) was introduced to the Carmanians during the dawn age by Lightbringer Missionaries. Malkionism was brought to much of Glorantha during the Imperial age by the Middle Sea Empire, etc. Cultural drift will account for a lot of the differences. But Air is Air; Water, Water; and Death, Death; so there will always be *some* commonalities in worship between Theistic Air worshippers, or Animistic Fire worshippers.

And the Kralorelans don't need "barbarian" deities, they have their own Perfect Beings, thankyouverymuch!

RR
He was born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was mad R. Sabatini, Scaramouche Received on Wed 25 Oct 2006 - 17:06:42 EEST