From: Alex Ferguson. , Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Tue 19 Apr 1994 - 23:38:50 EEST
Me:
> >Cronisper has always sounded Dayzatarish to me. Did the God
> >Learners make this correspondance?
Sandy:
> The Six Legged Empire found a parallel between Cronisper and
> Dayzatar (and Ty Kora Tek, and Drospoly), but he is not a
> Dayzatar-equivalent. For one thing, he is not a solar cult, which
> would have mattered a lot to the God Learners.
Not Solar, but he is a `Sky' cult.
> Why is Duala = Voria, you ask? Because the God Learners made the
> correspondence.
But were they on drugs at the time, or is there some rationale? On the face of it, they have differents "parents", different associations (Spring vs. the morning dew), and have only a vague `Youth' theme in common.
> Not only is Jmijie an associate of the King of the Gods (like
> Mastakos), but he also has his own strong and healthy cult (unlike
> Mastakos).
This seems somewhat odd, though. After all, if most worshippers are wanderlust `victims', the cult would appear to be _very_ thinly-spread, making it hard to round up the numbers for a proper shrine, even. On the face of it.
> Noruma trains and teaches [shamans]. He has spells and
> skills useful to shamans and other magic-type people.
#include "obvious.q";
> Pointing out lapses and horrors in various religions does not
> remove the fact that everyone who believes in the Bible believes that
> murder, theft, adultery, lying, and cheating are Wrong.
This is quite evidently only true if we knot-tie "believes in the Bible" to mean "doesn't kill, steal, commit adultery, lie, or cheat". If the World were rational, your statement would unquestionably be true.
> > [Mastakos's] billing as one of the Major Gods of Glorantha takes some
> > swallowing, though.
David Dunham:
> He owns the Motion rune, that's why he's "Major."
Yes, but that's begging the question, isn't it? He's not the only Major God with a dubious claim, though, IMHO: I think some runes have had their Source effectively fragmented, so that two or more deities have a more-or- less co-equal (possibly even joint) stake.
> I'd be interested to see
> your subcult ideas, since Mastakos is going to be more prominent in my
> chariot-riding Ralios.
Thoroughgoingly embrionic. Off the top of my head, I'd suggest stuff like Precision Lash (or Sure Whip, or whatever); Accellerate; Hold Corner (also known as High Energy Turn, Handbrake Turn, etc); the lack of a Brake spell is oft bemoaned by recently pranged acolytes, but is held to be a key cultic principle by the priestly hierarchy.
> (According to KoS, he's no longer a Runner...)
Recall he gets Healed, on the very same page, and then proceeds to cross half of Genertela in eight steps. I'd say he was a Runner again. Or at least, a helluva Walker, or Hop, Step and Jump-er.
> Remember that if Mastakos only has shrines, there can't be more spells.
That's not true, shrines to a sub-cult could offer a different single spell. After all, GoG does note that different shrines to M. offer different spells, and other such cases exist.
If all else fails, one can resort to the Hero Cult excuse.
> * (Since in most fonts an apostrophe is straight, accent grave looks really
> silly as a left apostrophe.)
Marginally less silly than using a close-inverted-comma at the beginning of a phrase, in fonts in which they're symmetric. (Like most X-Windows fonts: hey, this list _is_ distributed by Sun. <g>)
You know, in the default miniWRITER font, ` and ' almost balance. <duck>
I only use `es as apostrophes on Bad Typo days.
Aelx Fresugon.
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