Hi!
Two questions (although I must admit the entire disussion is too
esoteric for the campaigns I have run):
(1) Didn't the Red Goddess go a heroquest and meet the ghost of
Nysalor and then become illuminated? (Which then allowed Her to reach
the Crimson Bat, IIRC).
(2) Could a god become illuminated in God Time (i.e., before they
assumed fixed roles in the "modern" Glorantha)? For example, in the
mythology, Orlanth certainly changes and matures over time (umm, over
the course of events that took place in God Time), so could a young
god have started out un-illuminated and then have become illuminated
through events in God Time?
Thanks,
David.
- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, Greg Stafford
<glorantha1_at_...> wrote:
>
> YGWV
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Peter Metcalfe
> <metcalph_at_...>wrote:
>
> > Greg:
> >
> > > > when Yelm was killed he became illuminated,
> >
> > >Sorry: nonense. Gods don't "become" illuminated. They either are
or are
> > not,
> > >by virtue of their creation.
> >
> > I think the source of this is the Glorious ReAscent:
> >
> > GRAoY p37 Ivory Pages edition.
> >
> > Likewise the Order of Day teaches:
> >
> > The Fortunate Succession page 80.
> >
> > However these are in-gloranthan statements that are made by people
> > (Plentonius,
> > a bunch of riddlers) whose grasp on the truth is far less than
ideal. If
> > Yelm
> > has always been illuminated then they are simply wrong.
>
>
> I agree with Peter here, that these are the sources, and that they from
> human sources and that those are human sources and are from a human
> perspective, and that those perspectives use the wrong terminology.
If the
> gods went through the illumination process, maybe they were be mre
correct,
> but gods do not go through that process.
>
>
> --
> Greg Stafford
> Game Designer
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>