From: Peter Metcalfe (metcalph@bigfoot.com)
Date: Wed 03 Oct 2001 - 12:33:21 EEST
Terra Incognita:
> > >(I don't know the connection between similarity of Dragonewt
> > >Philosophy and Eastern Mythology of Glorantha,
> > They sprang from the same source.
>I cannot agree about it, Dragonewts are far more incomprehensible than
>eastern philosophy.
That's true but it doesn't change anything. Both the Kralori
and the Dragonewts believe that Dragons made the world and that
to become a dragon is the ultimate spiritual goal. Where they
differ is the starting point.
Dragonewts are limited dragons. They have all the required
psychic organs to become a dragon but these organs are
immature. Becoming a dragon require the exercise and
maturation of these organs. Once the organs are all developed,
the Dragonewt is a proper dragon.
Humans are portions of the Cosmic Dragon's Heart. They have
only one of the required psychic organs to become a dragon
(the dragon's heart) but it is well-developed. Because of
the centrality of the heart to draconic being, humans are
able to acquire the other psychic organs necessary. I think
the Kralori do this by using their heart to project draconic
energy outside themselves to create the necessary organs. Rather
than summoning a immature organ and grow it (as the dragonewts
do), the Kralori learn how to manifest a fully developed organ.
Once the organs are permanently manifested, the Kralori draconist
is a dragon. Other methods of how humans become dragons are
possible.
So although humans and dragonewts have the same goal, they
have different starting points and the means is different.
Dragonewt philosophy is incomprehensible to ordinary humans
because the dragonewts are thinking with their draconic
mind-organ that normal humans do not have. Kralori Dragons
will look at the Dragonewt philosophy and smile for
they know it to be nothing more than the fumbling steps of
a child learning how to walk.
Likewise Kralori Draconic Philosophy is meaningless to the
dragonewts for it show them how to become dragons by means
that are impossible for the dragonewts - they simply don't
have the heart for it - and also redundant - the aim is
to create organs that they already have. Dragonewt Dragons
look at the Kralori and snigger at the hearts trying to
understand what it means to have hands or a brain.
- --Peter Metcalfe
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