The God Wheel

From: Loren J. Miller (MILLERL@wharton.upenn.edu)
Date: Thu 05 May 1994 - 09:30:20 EEST

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Loren here...

Someone mentioned the Godplane and wondered what it was all about. Here's my theory. The Godplane is a big wheel. At one point on the Wheel you have the Lightbringers' Quest. At another point you have I Fought We Won. As Linear Time, established by Arachne Solara at the beginning, stretches into the future the Wheel rolls along it, stamping every moment in time with a corresponding moment from the Godtime. Worship rituals allow the worshipper to enter and exit the wheel safely. Heroquesting is just hopping on the wheel and trying to change something in it, trying to change something on the pattern that gets stamped onto time every year. Not that the wheel only completes one revolution a year. It also completes one revolution every season, every week, every day, every arbitrary time period, depending on what is affected. It is multiple wheels, wheels within wheels. Each group of myths makes up one cycle, one flywheel, the rotational period of which is determined recursively. When you stick all the mythic cycles together it makes up the Godplane, which rolls along from the past into the future like a big cosmic windup clock with a zillion gears, flywheels, cogs, and levers all simultaneously spinning like mad.

Got it? Now the important thing to remember from this is not that it is a crazy machine, the most important thing to remember is that it functions like a rubber stamp that keeps on imposing its pattern on Glorantha.

whoah,

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