Impressive!

From: Jose Ramos <jose_at_kobo.es>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 16:22:43 +0200

        Sergio has touched the truth, IMO, in the gods as passions idea. And it fits very well with some written facts about Arkat, illuminati, etc.

        Robert William Vesterman gives us one of the best myths to appear in the Digest in a long time. And he has shown how the Hair-styling God can be the prime mover in Glorantha, at least for its worshippers.

        Richard seems to argue against himself, as he does not seem to address other people points. In my Glorantha:

• Knowledgeable Westerners think that the winds arise from the interactions between the earth (and sea) and the sky. That is why winds are quite predictable for a certain time of the day and the year. However they can be affected by small forces (such as a butterfly), so inconstancy or hurricanes are possible.
• Storm cultists know that the winds are the vassals/tools of the Storm King (whoever he/she is). And as there is Air everywhere after the great feats of the Godswar, so you can find the winds anywhere. Of course they prefer certain locales, so you have dominant and seasonal winds.
• The Mystic just knows that winds are a necessary part of the cycle of the world, who breathes as we breathe, the breath of the Cosmic Dragon. The Air moves because if it did not move would not be air. And Air is.

        So all of them (with mountain experience) know that winds are usual in mountaintops (the interaction between Earth and Sky focused there; the favoured domains of the storms; places where the dragon is closer to the world, and everything is more real), and expect a gale.

        Some things are. Religion deals with explanations. And some things can be.

Jose

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