> --- Greg Stafford <Greg_at_...> wrote:
> > I suggest that curious parties for Gloranthan
> > mythological influences
> > need to read some original sources, like the Eddas,
> > Vedas, Upanishads,
> > and Hermes Trismegistus etc. and for influences,
> > check out Eliade,
> > Levi-Strauss, Dumezil, heck, even Loomis, Crowley
> > etc.
>
> And the Sumerian stuff, Inanna and so on, for an early
> version of the LBQ (Fay Sampson's Star Dancer is an
> easy read). Gilgamesh. The Mabinogion. The last lot of
> stories I wrote borrowed from Greek myths and Aesop,
> and they fitted Glorantha surprisingly well.
> Wagner....
For myself, when working on some of the Malkioni stuff, Catholic hagiography was also a handy inspiration.
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