From: Klyfix@aol.com
Date: Fri 07 Feb 1997 - 09:12:47 EET
I was reading a bit in the paper about Chinese New Year and how it
I'm thinking that it should be possible to have a non-shamenic
Any thoughts? How blasphemous am I being? :)
is considered necessary to have a fresh (bought live, killed at the store)
chicken for offerings to the ancestors. It struck me that while it seems in
Glorantha that the only ancestor worshippers amongst humans are primitives in
the sticks, here in the Hub of the Universe (Boston, Mass.) we have people
from an ancient and advanced culture who practice ancestor worship.
ancestor cult in Glorantha. I've seen an example of a sort; I found it in a
_Worlds of Wonder_ boxed set I bought used. It was a family cult that honored
a specific near-Hero ancestor. _Cults of Prax_ notes that people turn to
ancestor worship when they aren't happy with the gods; I think that should
not just be in the boonies but in cities. Perhaps a person keeps a talisman
or part of the skeleton of an ancestor or ancestors and has a reuseable
Worship Ancestor. While one would should still not have a DI, perhaps under
certain circumstances they could incarnate a particularly favored and potent
ancestor.
V.S. Greene : klyfix@aol.com : Boston, near Arkham...
I love breen.
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