[Glorantha] Re: Godi - how do we define them in HQ

[Jane Williams]

> Glad you agree, if they had to be devotees they
> would be poorly named 
> given the origional Norse context.

I'd be very wary of assuming a term used by Issaries
carries the same meaning as the same term used in the
original context, whether that be Norse or anything
else. A quick look at the term "odal" will show why my
wariness: it's used by Issaries for almost exactly the
opposite meaning of the real one!

Anyway, the Orlanthi aren't Norse...

>  I also get a distinctimpression that very 
> early tribes around the dawning had far less formal,
> almost animistic in 
> flavour styles of worship, and Godi are possibly a
> remnent of this 
> personal relationship style of theism.

Less formal and more personal than what? The Orlanthi
religion as I understand it is anything but formal,
and based very much on a personal relationship with
one's deities.



		
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