From: Carl Fink (carlf@panix.com)
Date: Mon 04 Sep 1995 - 20:47:37 EEST
Eric Rowe:
>I suggest you take a closer look at King of Sartar and the Glorious
>ReAscent of Yelm. Yes, certain 'events' occured long ago, but each
>culture that remembers them in their own way, in the way they saw
>the event...
This doesn't disagree with anything I wrote. Events happened, which
people (of various sorts) describe differently. That's in fact
exactly what I did say.
>...Also, some of us don't believe there are any 'clear' reasons
>to believe most of the myths in Glorantha are based on any sort of
>action by 'gods'.
Well, if the events happened, but were not the actions of gods, you
are now falling into euhemerism of the sort that the Romans used when
demytholgizing their religions. I also dislike euhemerism.
You *are* implying that it was humans and the equivalent who did these
things, right?
>>I hate Berkeleyism or anything that smacks of it.
>
>Figures, I'm living in Berkeley.
You are familiar with Bishop Berkeley (sp?), aren't you?
Let me elaborate a bit. My outlook is that of the modern Western
scholar. I am not a professional scholar myself, but my training an
inclination has always fallen in there. (Like Sandy Petersen, I have
a biology degree.)
I once jokingly referred to myself as a God Learner on this list. I
I think the GLs were *right* in their understanding. (I have to, of
did not mean that I know the Great Secret extirpated by the Gift
Carriers of the Sending Gods. I meant that my outlook, my way of
understanding things, is similar to theirs. The GLs were as close as
Glorantha got to scientists, to people who expected the world to
behave predictably, to derive its complexity from relatively simple
and understandable laws.
course.) I always saw their downfall as the result of hybris, not
incomprehension.
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