Re: Death Rune and creating undead

From: Todd Gardiner <todd.gardiner_at_HDAt6ErvqfLAyz5BvyILfk8UX6pdkKCnfPO_YSUIsq0zxjXISOrm-16gmLpglx>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 09:21:32 -0800

I sure hope none of you are leading up to a "God Switch", swapping ZZ for Shargash or Stormbull (or worse, Yelm!) That way leads to disaster! ;-) I always get a bit uneasy when people start saying that such-and-such a god is really a mask for another god, this is how he is worshiped in this other culture. I agree that the two points of view can coexist in Glorantha, but those points of view also suggest by their coexistence that the two truly are different and unrelated.

To me, there is less paradox in saying that Shargash is Shargash and Zorak Zoran is Zorak Zoran than there is in accepting each of the four separate creations myths for the origin of the Gloranthan universe. Perhaps because the first assertion is limited to the separation of powers in the Godsplane.

--Todd

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Tim Ellis <tim_at_c_76_3bXJm2UiKKbL8-2MjbewN4GhvbKBf4ResokDieBI7kpW7ffsfXQNcfD0tMVtrt8HEcWWjsqQ-G90k8ulrRS.yahoo.invalid> wrote:

> --- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com<WorldofGlorantha%40yahoogroups.com>,
> Greg Stafford
> been discussing Zorak Zoran and his possible connection to other Gods
> Are you suggesting ZZ is the "originator" of Beserking, or that Urox
> and ZZ both obtained this power from a common source (along with any
> other beserking gods)
>

> ....
>

>
> A great piece of God-learning!
>
> > And this is the kind of thing that there may well be a Gloranthan
> > cult or phiosophy which beleives this.
> > But NIMG.
> >
>
> Hmm - Yelmic Trolls, or ZZ worshipping Dara Happans - could be fun...
>

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