From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Mon 22 Aug 1994 - 23:30:37 EEST
Dave Pearton wonders, lonely, as a cloud:
> But what are the upper and lower bounds of this? Is there a roof to the
> upper heavens and a lower bound to the hells? There would have to be if
> chaos enters "from outside". So what does the Gloranthan cosmos rest on[?]
I contacted some of my Reliable Sources on this question, and got a range of answers which I'm sure you'll be able to see are easily unifiable into a God Learner Friendly, Greg-proof, One True Answer:
"Chaos! And it's trying to get in, Right Now!! Those Lunars are helping it, too, I tell you, whatever they say! Soon they'll dig up the Block, and then-- Eh, excuse me, I think that's a patrol..."
"The unending glory and splendour of the pure, unsullied Aether. I have spoken with the Holy One, and He would have told me if it were otherwise."
"Outside the world which we see, which is the body of the Great Ancestral Dragon of the Earth, is the Sky, and the Void, and the One, all part of the Celestial Dragon, which is all that can exist. Beyond his August and Noble Self is Ouroboros, that exists, and that which does not."
"We cannot know what is Outside, because we do not fully know the Inside. Each of us is like a small child, never having gone outside our mother's home, and ill-equipped to understand any of the outside world in any case. When the Goddess has healed the world, it will be our Initiation into the greater universe, and each of us will be able to go abroad into it like young gods at the Creation. I cannot describe this world to you, but I know in my heart that it will be new, and it will be wonderful."
"Your question is meaningless. The World is that which is. That which is not the World, is not. The primative mind reels at the starkness of non-existance, hence their manifold comforting lies and self delusions."
"Look at the map in Codex #2, lentil-brain!"
College of Further Education.
> Also if all the waters rushed to fill the gaping hole in the cosmos
> created by the destruction of the spike where is the water going - (out of
> the cosmos?) and if so is will the water ever going to run out completely?
That's an easy one, the waters go down into Hell, and then back up the outer oceans, and then up the sky dome, to fall back as rain. I imagine there's very general agreement about this, so I won't do the Funny Gloranthan Voices bit again. ;-)
Alex.
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