Re: A quick thought on Scorpion Men

From: bryan_thx <bethexton_at_zxD33z56C-V98of3ORUh9hrhJuCSMbvkeU6LQ1PViJVB_GIpowwZd-N13rmKT5K09C>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:28:54 -0000

wrote:
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> --- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, "bryan_thx" <bethexton@>
> wrote:
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> > Now that is just cool :-)
> >
> > To speculate some more, perhaps it was these spirits which were most
> > effected by chaos, leading to occasionally weird and unstable birthing
> > patterns?
> >
> > --Bryan
>
> The bagogi are not a people that existed before the outbreak of chaos
> and have been twisted. The whole species originated with the Chaos
> monster(god) Bagog.
>
I admit I'm not all that educated on the chaotic species in Glorantha, so I did not know that.

Then again, does this make any sense? A chaos thing/god creating such a structured species? Not that any human is apt to know the truth--I can imagine that they may know "there is no mention of these before the greater darkness, they appeared in the darkness, and worship Bagog. Therefore Bagog must have created them.

The truth, well, I don't know if it is the sort of truth you can learn without turning yourself into a scorpion critter. But I'd speculate something like there was some other god or spirit, no longer remembered, who ate a chaos monster to destroy it. But the chaos monster ate its way out of the god/spirit, taking over but also corrupting some its mythic/runic place in the world. Its followers were twisted into the scorpion folk. Or something like that.

--Bryan