From: Michael Raaterova (michael.raaterova.7033@student.uu.se)
Date: Wed 24 Jul 1996 - 23:25:15 EEST
Erik (who has forgotten the importance of blank lines):
>Michael R:
>> The big problem is to decide if the Gloranthan year consists of the usual
>> four seasons (spring/sea; summer/fire; autumn/earth; winter/dark) and an
>> extra, non-RW, storm season, or if the gloranthan year follow the
>> traditional seasonal progression, but split up in five parts.
>If you think of the year's seasons as divided up by the solar events,
>five seasons seem strange, yes. But the RW Same speak about
>themselves as "the people of seven seasons" - there are certainly
>other things than the state of the Sun which are important.
As Glorantha is primarily a game setting, i want to keep things like
I am used to thinking in four seasons, so that's the way i think of the
seasons pretty simple. If i would have to come up with a new way of
conceptualizing the year cycle it would take too much time from everything
else.
Gloranthan year. That said, what are the seven seasons of our samer?
>> Another, intertwined, problem is whether the Runes of the calendar have
>> actual impact and actually shape the year or are just nifty, though
>> ultimately arbitrary, ways of keeping track of time.
>I seriously doubt that the guys who invented the calendar would do it
>arbitrarily - there IS connection between various Holy Days we know
>and the runic names of the weeks and seasons. That doesn't mean it is
>100% accurate description of the fluctuations of Mana/Life
>Force/Breath through Glorantha, but they sure ain't just arbitrary.
What i meant was whether the Runic Calendar *causes* the year, or if it is
Anybody have any RW examples of cultural year-cycles not based on
merely a(n arbitrary) description of the make-up of the year. The use of
the word 'arbitrary' signifies that the description is one of many possible
descriptions, not that it doesn't correlate with the seasonal progression.
spring-summer-autumn-winter?
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Michael Raaterova <Sig omitted on legal advise>
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