>Since "all" (in the HW 85% "all" sense) Orlanthi truly believe that
>their myths are the truth, (I can agree with that, since most of
>their myths *are* the truth) they should not be presented in the
>Sartar-focused HW books as their "myths" and "stories". They should
>be presented as the factual history of their Gods and Goddesses.
But since most Orlanthi do not have their histories in the form of factual histories (which is itself a greek invention), they would not have their myths in the same form. They have their myths and history in the form of sagas like Homer's Iliad and do not recognize any difference between the two.
>Likewise, a proper HW-style book about fundamentalist Christians
>would present the Bible as factual history, talking about Noah's Ark,
>Jesus' birth in a manger, describing how the Host transubstantiates,
>etc.
Like the panorama of Orlanthi history as described in Thunder Rebels p141-153?
--Peter Metcalfe
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