[Glorantha] Re: Hsunchen definitions

Joerg Baumgartner wrote:

> I note that in the Four Worlds model, we are lacking a world here (the
> theist north does not seem to have their own beastfolk if the Hykimi get
> accounted for the Malkioni West, or the West if they are counted for the
> North). I do realize that the theist and spirit world collision was the
> first one, but creation of the Fiwan (and the other beast folk) coincides
> with creation of the animist world, right?

Joerg, are you not perhaps, confusing the clashing of cultures (or the analogous clashing of worlds) with the natural animist process of distillation of differences from a world of innocence towards difference.

This seems a purely animist context, that in some cases emphasises the differences between Beast form and Human form, and in others emphasises the difference between hunter and prey or eater and eaten. The fact that other cultures do not concentrate on animals as differentiators is surely down to their own perspectives on animals and the place in their culture, and cannot be expected to fit perfectly within a map of the world.

Jamie
Orlanth.Umathi Received on Tue 31 Oct 2006 - 11:51:45 EET