From: TERRA INCOGNITA (inarsus-ferilt-z@mrg.biglobe.ne.jp)
Date: Sun 23 Jan 2000 - 14:00:06 EET
Vormai GL and Valkarist spirit church: (like Dragon Sun cult in Pavis)
We believe Holy Trinity, Invisible One, Malkion, and Godlearner!
We reveres four Prophets: Malkion of West, Hrestol of North, Gregorius of
South, and Valkaro of East!
Fransisco Xavier missionaries went to Eastern asian Region for Catholicism
as member of Societas Jesu. Japan, Phillipine and China.
This age, Anti Refomationism prospered in New Continent and Asia for their
Spanish, Portuguese influence. Their relatively magnanimity for Foreign
practice, strict code for mission, and scientific technic made some success
in even conservative Chinese court for their Astrological (astronomical)
knowledge. (But later more intolerant sect of Catholicism missionary
criticized their Paganism, and Qing dynasty prohibited their activity.)
In Japan, small minority Sect of Christianism in kyusyuu (south west island)
resisted Buddism pressure and survived even under oppression of Hideyoshi
Toyotomi and maintained their religion all of Tokugawa shogunate Era,
(17-19C) Their action has serious influence in Japanese Culture for their
devotion (fanaticism) ever though their minor number. And they thrived under
Local buddhism or Shintoism cover (syncretism) like (Avalokitesvara (Kannon)
to Holy Mother) disguise.
this event is very popular for Japanese History:
1583-1591Tensyou (name of era: astrologically renamed in Chinese influential
culture)
Kenou(European Pilgrimage) Missions for Kyuusyu Daimyo (archlords) traveled
Europe and was audience by Pope Gregorius 13th and Spanish King
1638-1639Shimabara rebellion, under lead of Shirou Amakusa, Shogunate costed
vast war expendeture to suppress under 3rd Shogun of Tokugawa
Today, most influential region for Christian Church is Korea (both for
Cathlic and Protestant) in East Asia,
------------------------------
End of The Glorantha Digest V7 #315
***********************************
To unsubscribe from the Glorantha Digest, send an "unsubscribe"
command to glorantha-digest-request@chaosium.com. Glorantha is a
Trademark of Issaries Inc. With the exception of previously
copyrighted material, unless specified otherwise all text in this
digest is copyright by the author or authors, with rights granted to
copy for personal use, to excerpt in reviews and replies, and to
archive unchanged for electronic retrieval.
Official WWW at http://www.glorantha.com
Archives at http://www.kondalski.org/brian/Glorantha
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Fri 13 Jun 2003 - 20:52:50 EEST