From: Nick Brooke (100270.337@CompuServe.COM)
Date: Tue 15 Feb 1994 - 23:31:13 EET
I said to Alex:
>> I'd assign Danfive Xaron's cult the Law / Stasis rune
> I'm not convinced about the alleged equivalence here. Not that it
> isn't confused enough...
It is confused, I think very easily in central Genertela. In the West they know the difference. Any theories on why Mostal has Stasis not Law? Because the World Machine is a broken system, perhaps?
>> Also, in Blessed Torang his Lunar phase, the Dying Moon, >> comes on Godsday, which I'd associate with the Law rune
> By contrast to Wildday : Chaos, I presume ... The Compromise is hardly
> Pure Law, surely a _fusion_ of law and chaos?
Yes. Elemental/evolutionary sequence. Five elements plus law and chaos to make up Time. Law as the first (Creation) and last (Compromise) steps in the mythological development of Glorantha. The Cosmic Compromise sets up a set of rigid parameters within which the gods can exert their influence. If you hold to the Sorcery = Science argument, Science is only possible within Time, once Nature is fettered within the bounds of the Compromise. One of the best supporting arguments for my theories of the late development of what we now call Malkionism...
> Yeesh. I just had a nasty vision of meeting a Scimitar of YT/Acolyte of
> 7M in a well-Moonlit alley.
Keep seeing it: she's probably there waiting... This is the really scary thing about Yanafal Tarnils as compared to Humakt: Yanafal has friends, and associates! (And armies!)
> Life could get very confusing if there is a subcult of the Seven Mothers
> `specialising' in YT stuff, distinct from, and organised differently
> from, the `real' YT cult. Yes, I know, life already is...
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