Cultural Stuff

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From: Paul Reilly (paul@phyast.pitt.edu)
Date: Tue 02 Nov 1993 - 22:08:18 EET

  Paul Reilly here, responding to cultural stuff in the Digest:

  The early myths of Glorantha have many exact parallels in Sumerian myth. The story of Umaths's birth in particular. Thus I look at the Middle East (including perhaps everything from the Balkans to Northern India) as the key zone for Earthly cultures that are 'analogous' to central Genertelan cultures. Someone should write a paper on this...

  If we take the statement that Glorantha is a Bronze Age world seriously we should be looking at cultures like the Hittites and Mycaenean Greeks as our role models for Theyalans, Sumer for Dara Happa, etc.

  I tend to think of the Lunars as more Persian than Roman, but they certainly seem to have some Roman characteristics. Look at the way some Lunar names are presented - Icilius, Quintilius, etc.

  I like to think of Glorantha's humans as coming from Earth's Dreamlands, with perhaps some time crossovers so that the West can get its medieval flavor while the Center and East are still ancient...

  More another time...

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