At 11:45 AM 9/14/2001 -0700, you wrote:
The naming of Genertela is, I think, a matter of historical accident. I see
this as similar to the continent tha I live upon being called Amerigoland
instead of Columbia or Liefsland.
Clearly the proper name would have been Lodrilela, if the proposed naming
procedure was one of logic and choice. I imagine that in the Golden Age it
was called Yelmela.
But in fact when the worlds of the Animists and the Theists began ot
infringe upon each other Genert's Garden was one of the big interfaces for
the tribes that were in the early interaction. Because it was one of the
early places of awakening consciousness for those peoples Genert's Garden
was widely known and remembered. Some equate this with Orogosia (Ent. p 23).
Origosia. The First Garden of the Green Age. It was made by the women of the Ethjennan Tribe to bring their alienated peoples back to awareness of beauty and the immaterial world.
Genert's Garden was the site of many such awakenings, and the Great Spirit's name was attached to many places and events. The associations stuck.
End of The Glorantha Digest V8 #536
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