>> >> You are correct. It is really a complicated
>> ceremony.
>> >
>> > And for a "mere" ceremony, with no movement and
>>
>> I note the quote marks, but feel compelled
>> nonetheless to make it clear that jus
>> because it is a ceremony it is not easy.
>
> Emphasis always welcome - anything that the entire
> royal court of Sartar finds hard going is not "easy"
> in any normal sense of the word.
Crossing any barrier is difficult, even a mere 10w3.
>> > staying strictly on This Side, I take it that any
>>
>> Incorrect there. The entire event may take place in
>> one place, the temple or
>> holy spot, but the Other Side overlaps and is a
>> critical part of it.
>
> But... hang on, I was beginning to think I understood
> this, and I obviously don't. If it uses the Other
> Side, surely it's some sort of HQ?
In its broadest sense, it is a HQ. I use this term to descibe a lot of things,
but the main thing they all have in common is that they directly
involve energy
from the Othr Side. Sometimes one goes far and deep into it, experimentally or
in a ritualmanner like on the holy dayus when entire communites go and visit
the events of their deities or saints or whatever. Sometimes they get
the nergy
to spill into the world by activitating it and going to holy places in the
ordinary, everythign world. Sometimes they stand in place and the power fills
up the place and brings it to a great spiritual magnitude.
> Or are you using "ceremony" to mean something
> different from the norm?
No, I'm using it in the normal magical sense as it has been understood as such for centuries.
> To me a ceremony is something
> like, say, when I had my graduation ceremony
No wonder you are confused. This is your reknown materialistic
perspective once
again. I'd thought everyone understood that the magical ceremonies used in
Glorantha are just that--magical. They are imbued with power of the other side
They ae ways of communicating with the Other Side, either to go there or gets
its power to come here. Think of a Mass, or a healing ceremony or a Sun Dance,
or a May Day, or a baptism.
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