From: Peter Hindman (strev@arches.uga.edu)
Date: Thu 28 Aug 1997 - 19:31:48 EEST
Hi. Just joined the digest, hope this hasn't been done to death.
Can anyone point me to references on the distinctions between beast-men
and hsunchen? There don't seem to be many deep references on beast-men;
the most information I've seen is in stuff on scorpion men, who aren't
necessarily representative. It seems as if (to go from the Bagog
description) that beast-men are tied to both Beast and Man, while hsunchen
are only tied to Beast, despite appearing and acting much more 'man'-like.
I suppose the big question, mythically/ecologically speaking, is why
Glorantha contains both types of beings in more or less the same regions
and ecologies. They're clearly related (Bagog offers spells to gain a
scorpion's carapace and claws) but not the same (Bagog doesn't offer
Become Scorpion).
And while I'm at it, are dragonewts really just a kind of dragon
hsunchen (probably not)? And does that make newtlings newt hsunchen based
on a dragonewt rather than a human model?
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