From: David Gadbois (gadbois@cs.utexas.edu)
Date: Wed 01 Jun 1994 - 12:43:00 EEST
From: alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk
Date: 31 May 94 19:55:52 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 4281
After all, the events of the Godtime are obviously historical facts, preserved and embodied outside of normal Time by the compromise as the Godplane, and only intervening time and muddle-headedness has obscured the details so that they appear to the untrained observer, to be different, or even conflicting "myths".
Exactly! If the God Learners had not done their thing, I suspect that the Third Age (whatever that would have been) would have been the last. Gloranthan myth seems to have an entropic tendency: the Godtime winding down to a mythologically sterile heatdeath. Instead, by pulling together and organizing fragmented myths, the GLs gave Glorantha a new lease on life.
I think that the event that caused the Age of Illiteracy was similar in effect. Without a method for disseminating conflicting information and with a strong doctrinaire society (Hail Harshax!), there is hardly any way for mythology to become further unravelled.
The question then, is why did the Sending Gods object so strenuously to the GLs? Perhaps their meddlings actually served to further destabilize the situation.
--David Gadbois
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