From: Joerg Baumgartner (joe@sartar.toppoint.de)
Date: Sat 06 Aug 1994 - 17:43:32 EEST
Henk Langeveld asked in X-RQ-ID: 5468
> What was the origin of the God Learners? I feel uncomfortable
> about them being sorcerors (a.k.a. non-polytheists).
> How did they know about the gods if they did not recognise
> them in the first place...
The whole thing started in Jrustela. Glorantha Book, p.24, says: "The earliest practitioners were the Seven Explorers, a collection of wizards and priests of Eradinthanos, a city in Jrustela."
My theory is that the Jrusteli colonists were recruited from the misfits of Seshnelan society. This included both the most rabid monotheists (extremists from 3rd century True Hrestol Way adherents) and the most rabid polytheists (adherents of the Serpent King ways).
They had priests among their number. I guess the thing started like a debating club for religious and world views, until one of them invited the rest to really participate in the rites, and then they did so all way round, and they discovered first commonalities they chose to pursue.
They wouldn't have been Arkati. Did Nysalor's mission ever reach Jrustela? I'd expect that the Seshnegi colonies there started already under the Serpent Kings...
BTW, Sandy, the 1st Age Seshnegi god of Trade and Communication
obviously was Garzeen, who wooed and married King Froalar's daughter.
In Dragon Pass this was Harst, aka Spare Grain. Where is Issaries from?
He and Lhankor Mhy were strangers Orlanth met on his Lightbringers'
Quest...
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-- Joerg Baumgartner joe@sartar.toppoint.de
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