From: David Dunham (ddunham@radiomail.net)
Date: Fri 07 Jan 1994 - 02:51:40 EET
>From: paul@phyast.pitt.edu (Paul Reilly)
>David Cake writes:
>
>> The point of all this is that the runes are basically a cultural
>>artifact, that is reflected in the mythology, but they are not necessarily the
>>deep profound basic secrets of the universe that RQ2 made them out to be.
>
> This is exactly right, and it really annoys me. I _liked_ the idea that
>GLorantha had deep underlying laws, some of which had been discovered by the
>inhabitants. "Everything is cultural relativism" BUGS me, because it broke
>up this vision of a REAL secondary world with consistent laws of its own.
I think there's room for both viewpoints. Maybe there _are_ deep underlying
runes. Cultural ways of looking at them include both their shape, and the
niggling breaking down of runes into subrunes (earth/malign earth,
fire/light, dark/shadow, etc.).
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