From: Peter Metcalfe (P.Metcalfe@student.canterbury.ac.nz)
Date: Thu 25 Jul 1996 - 04:10:46 EEST
Erik Sieurin:
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>However, how
>much do your subjective view colour your perception of the Godtime.
>If I heroquest and encounter Arkat, will he be dressed as I see him
>on pictures in illuminated books (similar to a modern knight) or will
>he be clothed in the real apparel of his era?
Most people when they heroquest go to the portion of the mythic
world closest to them. Since this was last renewed less than a
year ago (in most cases - think of easter), the modernizing
attitudes of the poplace will cause Arkat to appear in apparel
that they _expect_ him to be wearing. Since the modernized version
is updated from the _previous_ modernized version (as opposed to
the original), the changes are gradual. (Moreover this version
applies only for a distinct group. Enemies of Arkat will, frex,
see him differently).
However if the poplace had a myth fragment which effectively told
them that Arkat did not have such a thing than this feature will
*not* be modernized. The best example of this is Homer's Illiad
where everybody is said to have used bronze weapons (changing bronze
to iron couldn't be done for iron had one more syllable than bronze
[in greek] which would have distorted the meter of the epic).
What the Lunar T&Jers are doing is travelling to the distant parts
of the mythic world and using the knowlege from there ('there were
people before Yelm!') to undermine the recieved orthodoxy.
- --Peter Metcalfe
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