[Glorantha] Duck Cosmonauts

[Stewart Stansfield]

Keith:
> OK, fellow Heroquest-RPG listers, let's grab Stu and force him to pick an
> ultimate monomythic theory.  If he doesn't pick mine then, to misquote the 
> Thing,
> "It's Crunchin' Time"...

"If our ancestors saw a large unusual bird they described what they had 
actually seen, as the concept for it was included in their limited 
vocabulary. But how could they have described a phenomenon in the firmament 
seen for the first time for which words and concepts were lacking? Probably 
the alien cosmonauts were not over-particular about casualties during their 
first landing on our planet."

Erich von Daeniken, The Gold of the Gods, p. 24 (Rev. English ed., 1974) (I 
didn't buy it, I inherited, honest.)

So, it's official. Ducks are 'Star Captains', i.e. a clumsy term to describe 
anatoform astronauts from some other planet (actually, given the 
name-genesis legends of Duck Point...)... or the same planet in Planet of 
the Ducks styl-ie.

> To counter the threat of counter-theories I am
> going to compare Stu's  Caladraland stone heads to an Eric Von Daniken 
> style
> Chariots of the Gods theory - in other words, one that I do not really 
> believe.

If you are implying, Keith, that the fact that I alone have met, befriended 
and caroused with the hitherto unknown Caladran duck tribe, ignored of 
anatopology; that I alone have been trusted with their secrets, for they 
will meet with no others; and that I have no photographic or representative 
evidence to prove my claims whatsoever, other than a quick sketch which 
curiously includes the word "concept"... somehow invalidates the empirical 
basis of my research, then I'm outraged.

Cheerio,

Stu.