From: G. Fried (address.removed@nowhere.tld)
Date: Tue 02 Nov 1993 - 21:14:46 EET
G. Fried here.
Sandy offers a very interesting reason for why, IN GENERTELA, slavery is so wide-spread: Ompalam (Chaos god of slavery) WON there. In Pamaltela he has yet to win, and slavery is abominated.
Does this mean that Ompalam is an aspect of Wakboth, Chaos as moral evil? In the sense that Thed is the Chaos god of the (moral evil) rape? Is slavery in Glorantha a NATURAL moral evil in the way that, say, incest is -- one that Wakboth preys upon in order to break in upon the world?
But if all this is true, why does no one in Genertela oppose this victory of Chaos? Is that what it means for it to have 'won' -- that a chaotic act comes to understood as perfectly natural and as something no one would even think of questioning? Does that mean it isn't even 'chaotic' any more, that it poses no threat to the world, secretly or otherwise?
Maybe then a VERY dogmatic Yelmian would say something to this effect: "You know, that scum Orlanth was once a Chaos god, too. Really. Just like that fellow Ompalam, yessiree. He validated the very notion of theft -- imagine that! Theft! And murder! Can you imagine moral evils worse than these? But Orlanth stole Yelm's throne and then murdered him, and in his victory he made theft and murder part of our cosmos. Curse him! Oh, will you look at the time! Gotta run, I'm late for my Nysalor discussion group!"
GF out.
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