At 5:07 PM -0700 8/29/02, Andrew Solovay wrote:
>Peter Larsen <peterl_at_...> wrote:
>>
>> Even the Maran
>> holy cannibalism reinforces the Ogre Ancestor in some slight way.
>> That's pretty clear. But what about Uz? They eat sentient beings
>> gladly, family members (enlo) cheerfully, and other family members on
>> a ritual basis. To everyone else, this may be evil, but, to the Uz,
>> it's just a snack. I find it hard to believe that the Uz activities
>> reinforce chaos because eating is what Uz do -- it is an absolutely
>> natural expression of Darkness.
>
>FWIW, I think Enlo are the only sentient beings Uz kill *for food*.
>They'll eat anything that's dead--meat is meat--but they won't kill a
>sentient being just to eat it. Of course, they'll kill a sentient being
>for being a snot-nosed death-worshipping sunboy, and once he's dead,
>they'll eat the body. Meat, like I said, is meat.
Well, maybe; I confess I don't know exactly what Uz will and
won't eat....
>I don't know if that's relevant (is the Ogre sin eating the bodies of
>sentients, or killing sentients in order to eat them? And does it matter
>if they're of the same "species"?).
I just think that there is some room to quibble about what is
chaotic and what merely evil (and, occasionally what might be good)
between cultures and races in Glorantha. The list moderator has
cleared his throat once or twice, I suppose we'd better get ourselves
to the digest before he gets all chaotic on our behinds....
Peter Larsen