From: Steven R Lieb (liebx004@maroon.tc.umn.edu)
Date: Sat 27 Jul 1996 - 07:03:24 EEST
Someone recently suggested "The time falling bodies take to light" by Irwin
Thompson (?) as a good source for Glorantha mythopoeic understanding. (I
seem to recall that it was suggested that GS read it and built his ideas
therefrom, but i maybe dreamed that...)
Anyway, great book. I frankly am V E R Y leery of the pseudoscientics who
see every fence as a "male phallic territorial marker" and every damn hole
in the ground as a "attempt to recreate the womb" or some such nonsense
(we've all read it, i'm sure!)
I feared this book was going to be a rant in this direction. However, I
gritted my teeth, got thru the first chapter, and am reluctantly starting to
agree with some (not all by any means) of his assertions. He's just too
well supported and his prose is too readable to dismiss. I would heartily
suggest this as a source reading for anyone interested in the deeper
elements of the Gloranthan myth.
(And be prepared for the occasional goosebump when you read something like
"and it is natural to evolve a matriarchal, lunar religion." and then go
off about basing it on the color red or some such thing. eeek!)
- -Steve (liebx004@tc.umn.edu)
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