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> Is there a better source on this than the write-up in Blood over Gold?
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> Richard Hayes
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> --- On Tue, 7/7/09, Chris Lemens <chrislemens_at_...> wrote:
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> From: Chris Lemens <chrislemens_at_...>
> Subject: Hsunchen Was: Animist magic [was: Changed magic in 2nd and 3rd Age]
> Date: Tuesday, 7 July, 2009, 6:57 PM
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> Jeff Kyer:
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> > I think one point that is continually overlooked with the Hsunchen is that they are in a very basic way, broken. One of the primary tenements of their worship is
> > the reintegration of missing spiritual parts that they lack and once integrated these spirits become part of the worshiper until they recover all that was lost with
> > the coming of whatever destroyed or damaged their particular people, be it Death, Wolves, or Lima Beans.
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> To sound way too much like your thesis advisor, can you cite a source supporting that proposition?
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> Thanks,
> Chris Lemens
A surprisingly large bit of discussion with Greg when I was writing the Pralori Homeland and religion in Trader Princes - making sure the first published Homeland involving hsunshen animism was done right was of some importance to him. I'll see about digging up the relevant posts. And it has been noted in the literature from Anaxial's Roster to Gods of Glorantha and further back. Being broken or split or separated and then recovering what was lost is very much the hsunchen motif. I don't think its merely "colour" but methodology.
Jeff