more Pavic Pantheon thoughts
>so it seems better to talk of a confederation of deities in the Pavis
>region, each acknowledging Pavis political rule and social role
The main point I was trying to get across, but didn't perhaps put very succinctly, is that if there is any confederation it is between the cults - the human social organisations that worship deities - not between the deities themselves (except of course in the case of deities with a common mythology). If I were an Orlanth priest in Pavis I would _never_ say that Orlanth had accepted the rule of Pavis, but I might personaly accept the local authority of the Pavis cult on Orlanth's behalf.
I don't see that describing the gods in that region chummying along with each other is a helpfull one. On what level is a confederation between the deities themselves meaningfull? If there is no myth for it, then I don't think it realy means anything. Unless you can point to a specific myth where Orlanth deferd to Pavis (bearing in mind Pavis was deified in historical times), then I don't think you can say Orlanth has entered into a confederation with him.
Some people in Glorantha might describe the situation in the way you do, but making it an objective rules-level fact is something else.
What is actualy happening is that a number of cultures share a geographic relationship with each other and have reached a political (and perhaps even magical) status quo. Why not simply describe it as that?
Simon Hibbs
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