From: Graeme Lindsell (lindsell@rschp1.anu.edu.au)
Date: Sat 30 Apr 1994 - 03:12:30 EEST
John Hughes on Gnostic creation
>This mythological principle - The One into the Many - is nearly
>universal, and extends far beyond the Gnostics
It's also the Malkioni creation myth, from memory of GoG. I wonder if there's meant to be a connection, or just independant origin like on Earth.
Re: Sandy P. on Thanatar:
Given that Tien and Atyar were reunited during the second age, I wondered whether the God Learners did it. After all, Thanatar is such a useful cult to knowledge thieves (which some of the GL's certainly were). They could then have been responsible for the cults spread beyond the East.
> I think the main objection of the Malkioni to the Lunars is
>the Lunar acceptance of Chaos, which the Malkioni oppose with all the
>vehemence of any Orlanthi. And, of course, the Orlanthi "filter" of
A question about the Malkioni and Chaos occurred to me in a private discussion: do the Malkioni believe that Chaos exists outside the world of Glorantha? I don't think they do, and this is my reasoning (quoted from the other discussion) :
> Logical belief in the IG: If the standard cosmology of central Genertela
>is accepted by the Westerners, then one can logically posit a god greater
>than the IG. This god created Chaos, which surrounds Glorantha and can
>apparently destroy it. Of course, Western cosmology may not accept Chaos
>as alien to Glorantha, but the product of its decay, produced (of course)
>by the worship of false gods which leads inevitably to the Devil.
MOB: thanks for detailing Eastern Christianity and the Emperor.
Mike Dawson writes:
>Perhaps I do not have a full understanding of what all went on out
>there, but I think Maples' presented hissystem for handling
> the world and HQing. The reply was, I believe,
>"Thanks but no thanks." No idea why.
Really? Greg was saying that he planned to use EPIC as the basis for HQ, if and when it finally emerged.
>I guess yours is part of the Australian print run.
It's got your signature on the inside cover (18something out of 190). I'm definitely looking forward to Issue 2, as I'm planning a Loskalmi campaign based on Pendragon rules.
Loren Miller writes:
>Everyone joins the same cult. That's the social glue for their community.
>By joining the local cult the adult should get all the benefits required
>to live
Is this true? In Orlanthi culture the men should join Orlanth and the women Ernalda IMO. I have been playing a similar concept though:
In my current game (Risklands using modified Pendragon rules) I let each PC join a major "social" cult: like Ernalda, Orlanth, Seven Mothers etc for free, just as a part of growing up. If they wanted, they could also join one of the specialist cults, like Humakt or Lhankor Mhy, with the usual costs of POW and skill requirements Upon reaching the Risklands they discovered interesting facts about how few worshippers of the specialist cults there are in the back of beyond, and how the largest local churches are Orlanth and Ernalda. The Humakti PC - a Sartarite and thus also an initiate of Orlanth - was even more surprised to find that decent people don't worship Humakt in these parts. He's not aware that it's only the orders of the Lunars that has kept him from being lynched.
Richard Staats writes:
>At RQ-CON, Greg and Sandy said that
>a being could not worship Arachne Solara *directly*, but it *was*
>possible for there to be false spirits/intermediate beings.
Which would imply that the Invisible God is a fake but the central Genertelans know the _real_ god. There goes cultural relativism...
>The Invisible God draws from many
>primal aspects/Runes, but he/she/it does not ``own'' any directly.
I thought he/she/it was meant to be the source of the Law rune?
(Aside: what gender do the Malkioni assign to the IG? I'd think male but does anyone know?)
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Graeme Lindsell a.k.a lindsell@rschp1.anu.edu.au
"I was 17 miles from Greybridge before I was caught by the school leopard"
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