I think that Gark would like to be portrayed as the God of Eternal
Peace to the foolish westerners who may be seduced into believing so,
but his true power and his rune clearly link him to chaotic corpse
enslavement. Or let us say, a chaotic version of hunger (one of
many), the hunger rune itself is not chaotic in origin.
That is not to say that all zombie making is chaotic, but there is a
chaotic version of this magical power and Gark is the patron of this.
- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, Peter Metcalfe
<metcalph_at_...> wrote:
>
> Phil H.
>
> >Isn't Gark the Calm the god of Zombies? Gark is listed as a
> >chaos god, which would suggest that Zombies are linked to the Chaos
> >rune.
>
> Gark is properly the God of Eternal Peace rather than being the God
> of Zombies. For Zorak Zoran and other Zombie makers to borrow
> from the magics from him would require that they have some
connection
> with Gark in their mythology. Secondly if Zombies were chaotic
> there would have been some mention of them in the literature.
>
> IMO Gark is a Fonritan heresy that often spreads out of Fonrit into
> other parts of Pamaltela. Large parts of Fonrit believe there is no
> life after death so they practice mummification to preserve the
> self. The Garki believe that it is an error to wait for death
before
> being mummified and so they get mummified as soon as possible.
>
> --Peter Metcalfe
>