On 16 Jul 2004 at 13:07, bethexton_at_... wrote:
>
> Ummm, the way I read it, there was no implied chaos connection. She
> is a goddess far more feared and hated than loved, but not at all
> chaotic. In fact, amongst the Orlanthi quite a few ways of killing
> people could be seen as chaotic, but I think Ana Gor is quite clearly
> not chaotic.
>
> Which is not to say people don't see sacrifices to her as evil....
This remains one of the things I like. There is evil, and there is Chaos, and its not a 1-1 correlation.
> One more thought on this topic, one of the things you can do in
> Glorantha which is most shocking to most people is abandon your faith
> (god, spirit, saint, whatever). Most have ways of punishing such
> folk, but it can be survivable. I could imagine something like her
> having followed her faith to the utmost, right up to using the Ana
> Gor rights for a sacrifice. In shock afterwards then not only
> fleeing the scene, but abandoning her faith, which had included such
> a horror as a possibility.
That's intriguing. The abandoning of faith is an interesting point, actually. The trader is of Orlanthi origin, even if he left Sartar for Karse fairly young. It seems likely it was postinitiation, so he should be an Issaries initiate (the family is a trader family). Other intiations are possible. But he's not sure he would have stayed an initiate. I know people can change initiations over time in Orlanthi tradition, but given Issaries is so cosmopolitan, I somehow think he might have just shifted to a less classically Orlanthi version of the cult.
It has now occurred to me that if the Lunars have taken over and he's serious about moving up in the society of the new leaders, he may find pressure to convert to Etyries or Lokarnos to get access to better clients. So there may be an abandoning your faith story going on here.
LC
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