[Glorantha] Gloranthan Souls, etc.

[Simon Hibbs]

From: "Malk Williams" <malk at malkavius.com>
Subject: [Glorantha] Belief, Deities and their Worship.
>
> There is quite a common theme in a certain sort of book, to espouse as
> fact, the idea that gods are created by the belief of their worshippers,
> and moulded into what their worshippers believe them to be.

I think this theory orriginates from the assumption that religious
beliefs are essentialy false, therefore they are the invention of the
believers, therefore if you assume that somehow the gods become true,
they will conform to the believer's expectations. I don't think this
theory shows much respect for religious beliefs.


From: CJ cj at falster23.freeserve.co.uk
continues the intense discussion…
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> I have had an odd thought though.  In Glorantha, is Death a positive
> metaphysical state, not merely absence of life?

I've been musing on similar lines to this question while writing my
last few posts. What is different about living beings?

The living seem uniquely capable of innovation, evolution,
development, orriginqality. Only living beings can introduce entirely
new things into glorantha. Where do they come from? Gloranthan
creation myths may differ, but they generaly agree that there was an
orriginal creative act from which all of glorantha proceeded. I think
that in some way life itself is a connection with this orriginal point
of creation, enabling innovation. Death therefore is the severing of
this connection.

This theory raises the question of how Chaos fits into this scheme.
I've writen about this before. A summary of my views on this can be
found at the Lokarnos website.

http://lokarnos.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/1557215&mode=thread


Simon