On Tue, 2005-21-06 at 08:01 +0100, Jane Williams wrote:
> Come off it - that would be sinking to the level of "I can't find
> documentary already-written evidence for it therefore it doesn't exist". I
> don't deal in that sort of rubbish. I'm quite sure there is at least one
> mountain that does not have a god associated with it, somewhere. In fact, I
> suspect it's the norm. But I'm not going to go to the effort of writing it
> up just to prove it.
Sorry. Obviously the tone of that request came off way harsher than I intended. (Don't write at 2am, LC!)
> > While a *given* river or mountain might
> > not, there are ones with each.
>
> Of course, but you said "the" mountain, not "a" mountain. There will be
> mountains with spirits, mountains with gods, mountains with both, and
> possibly even mountains with neither, though that sounds pretty scarey and
> unnatural to me.
True. And mea culpa. (And I agree about the third. Although if you go far enough west or east, perhaps it happens?)
> > If it is basic enough to affect all people on a day to day level, then
> > all peoples are going to have a myth for it. Since some are
> > animist and some are theistic, you're going to find redundancy.
>
> Yep.
>
> But the next question is "are the god and the spirit the same entity"?
> And the only logical question after that is "how would you find out,
> in-game?" The answer to which is (usually) either "you can't", or "you can
> HQ for the answer, and then you as a player end up defining what it is".
> What the answer may be in meta-game terms is irrelevant and useless.
Agreed whole-heartedly. But what I was trying to get at is the idea that when someone starts needing something like "winter" as a tradition or a faith, there is no reason not to be able to justify giving it to them.\
(Note, I don't think this applies to saint, which seem less tied such phenomena.)
LC
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