From: Joerg Baumgartner (joe@sartar.toppoint.de)
Date: Thu 02 Jun 1994 - 17:36:53 EEST
X-RQ-ID 4304:
I loved David Gadbois' theory about the monomyth as necessary to
save the world. I do think that the form as we know it is a fake,
sown together from the fragments which survived the fragmentation
of the world in the Greater Darkness, before Arachne Solara threw
out her net and reconnected the remaining pieces. Where parts of
the universe had been lost in the void, their myths, which might
have bridged the neighbouring versions, would have perished as well.
Where the seams were artificially reknitted, the myths and people
may have clashed with extra fervour.
The Theyalan missionaries of the Dawn Age and (face it!) the Lunar missionaries in the Third Age did start this way as well, and both preciptated the cataclysm which ended their Ages (will end them in case of the Lunars). Just like the God Learners...
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