>Not really. He *upsurped* the rule of the women which implies
>that he wasn't a ruler before then. Furthermore he was given
>the rule over men by the women which implies that there was
>a time when the Sun was not a ruler - he is noted for having
>given the best advice before this. This reflects IMO a
>transition between the Darsenite matriachy and the rise of a
>Solar state.
There are hints of this even in surviving Pelorian myth, IMO. ("This" being the Emperor's more humble beginnings.) And certainly I didn't claim that everyone has *identical* views.
>They would see the Sun as powerful but the concept of him as
>a ruler is not something that is automatic (insofar as a water
>buffalo is considered powerful but not a ruler).
There are no egalitarian human societies. Some are more authoritarian, and some don't have "rulers", but all without exception have leaders.
Alex Ferguson <abf_at_interzone.ucc.ie>
>Carl Fink posts his bimonthly demand for Similar Gods to be Equivalent,
>Equivalent gods to be Identical, and Identical Gods to be More Similar.
Demand? Nah, more like "insistence".
>(And implicitly, that they all be as Objectively Real as possible, and
>to desist with this aberrant similarity to RW mythology.)
Yup, as far as Objectively Real. And again, why bother with Glorantha if you want real-world mythology? The real world *already* exists.
Apparently I was unclear in one sentence. I meant to say, "Does anyone on the lozenge worship the Sun as a trickster?"
Oh, I can't look up Avivath, don't have the materials.
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". . . people everywhere -- when you strip away their superficial differences -- are crazy." Dave Barry
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