From: Peter Metcalfe (metcalph@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri 07 Jul 2000 - 00:18:46 EEST
Olli Kantola:
Me> > Bagog has been associated with shamans in Gods of Glorantha
> > and is thus animist. Some of her worshippers have spells, > feats, etc
>depending on who they last ate.
>I don't see Bagog as animistic, althought it is tempting (ancestress
>worshipping).
There is much more to animism than ancestor worship.
Why Hmm. Let's see.
>Is the intelligence devouring an inborn ability or does it come from
>worshipping Bagog? I think that it does. That's why the cult is the
>cornerstone of scorpionman society.That means that you have to have Eat
>Enemies -spirits and Stomach Acid that drains intellect ->spirits. :)
Or perhaps the Scorpion people simply have the Ritual of
Devouring that allows them to integrate (as described in
the HW rules) anything they've physically eaten and gain
one ability.
>I don't see the scorpionmen wielding fetishes and dancing in a
>circle (with their legs going clipety-clak, step-dancing) while >practicing
>ecstatic worship :D
Ecstatic worship can involve dancing in a circle and not
all animists use fetishes.
- --Peter Metcalfe
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