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> --- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, Stephen Tempest <e-g@> wrote:
> >
> > This is related to the mysticism discussion:
> >
> > Back in the days of 'Hero Wars' and 'Revealed Mythologies', we were
> > taught that the Middle World of Glorantha was formed by the collision
> > of four Otherworlds. Each one came from a different direction, which
> > is why the West of Glorantha is predominantly sorcerous, the North
> > theist, the East mystic and the South animist.
> >
> > Now, though, everyone talks of just three Otherworlds. So what
> > happened to the fourth one?
> ...
>
> There never was a mystic otherworld. The otherworlds are
> par of the non-physical, and the mystic state is neither
> physical nor non-physical.
>
> But
>
> Charles:
> >* The 3 worlds were so wrecked by the greater darkness that mortals
> >could no longer live in them and immortals could remain in their
> >home only by consenting to maintaining their existence unchanged and
> >unchanging. Mortals (and many immortals) migrate to the mystical
> >world, which becomes the mortal or centre world. The 3 worlds become
> >the otherworlds.
>
> which is a very cool idea. Call the fourth world "eastern"
> or something rather than "mystical" and it could work!
>
Before the collision and wrecking, they were not the otherworlds, they were the worlds where the mortals and immortals of each approach lived. It is only after the mortals migrated to the "mystical world" that the 3 worlds became otherworlds.