From: Peter Metcalfe (P.Metcalfe@student.canterbury.ac.nz)
Date: Fri 18 Apr 1997 - 02:09:16 EEST
Trent Di Renna:
>Something just occured to me. I have read that many of the "processes" of
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>Glorantha (sunrise, death, storms, etc.) are due to the Great Compromise,
>which "froze in time" the relationships the various gods had with each
>other and applied them to the mortal world in the form of these
>"processes". Did they exist before the Dawn? If Time didn't exist before
>the Dawn, then the "mythic history" doesn't make any sense, since it is
>set up chronologically. Were humans immortal during this period, or were
>they subject to death even then?
Oh dear. This is a very controversial topic. The standard explanation
you have just quoted above is widely believed by the Orlanthi and many
other people but many others do not believe in it. A major example is
the Yelm worshippers of Peloria whose written history indicates that
time had existed for 100,000+ years before the Dawn. IMO the Orlanthi
if pressed would acknowlege that Orlanthi had known some measure of
linear time but would then say that the Time that they experience today
is *not* the same as the linear time of Orlanth.
David Dunham:
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AF>> I'm not familiar with the term "Grey Age"
>Presumably the era after the worst of the Darkness but before the formal
>Dawning. I liken this period to the time when the sky is lightening in the
>east, but the sun hasn't yet appeared on the horizon.
It's an interesting question of how much light and heat, Kargzant
(Lightfore) gave off. I'm wondering if Plentonius's description
about the rise of Antirius during the Anarchy Year is actually a
transplanted tale of what it was like when the Sun rose over the
horizon and so that Day of Lightfore became the Night. Of course
this requires Kargzant to have gotten a lot dimmer since the Dawn.
Christoph Luehr:
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>Can anybode send me the address and/or the Faxnumber from Wizards
>Attic ? I live in Germany and a telephone call would be a little bit
>to expensive.
Wizard's Attic
PO Box 718
Hayward
CA 94543-0718
No fax number AFAIK.
Nick Brooke:
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>I'm sure that Pentan shamans worship Yelm as a Great Spirit, and not as
>Rune Priests (TM). Based on common sense, as well as past conversations
>with Greg re: Sheng.
Pentan Shamans worship Kargzant, not Yelm.
>If the "merged cults" theory has legs, why do the Seven Mothers have only
>two Rune levels and not (five or six or) seven? Or do *any* number of
>merges produce two Rune ranks?
There was a chart in ye olde Cults of Prax which purported to give the
contributions of each mother to the Seven Mothers Cult. I think however
that only the Runelords of the Seven Mothers are really Seven Mothers
Priests who have dedicated themselves to Yanafal Tarnils (as opposed
to the Scimitars of Yanafal Tarnils). This would imply that the Priests
of the Seven Mothers would come in six different flavours with the High
of chief Priest being the Full Moon flavour.
David Cake:
>There are also ruling gods that do
I'll be suprised if this was true. As well as the Mandarins, there
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>not have multiple rune levels (Godunya, for example).
are also the Exarchs and Governers and probably a number of parallel
positions like Court Eunuch and General..
- --Peter Metcalfe
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