- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, herenweg wrote:
>Yes, but you wouldn't go to the god time to check
>chronology, you'd go back to
>experience an event, the wonder of Yelm's glory, etc.
They wouldn't go back specifically to check, but I would guess they would plan their quests based on it and notice if things didn't work out right.
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> > But hero questers (at least Dara Happan ones) would expect their quests to match, at least in general terms, Dara Happan lore? Otherwise, Dara Happan's wouldn't accept that their myths are right?
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> Yes, but one does not experience Plentonius' chronology. It is an
>intellectual construct, an attempt by those in Time to being order
>and understanding to the Mystery of the God Time. Yelm's
>Enthronement is eternal and constantly reoccurring. Sure Plentonius
>places that event to be 111,000 years before the Dawn, but it is
>also happening right now at the Raibanth ceremony.
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> Based on Plentonius, Dara Happans say that 10,179 years passed >between the death of Muharzarm and the destruction of the world. >Who's to say that is right? Who's to say that is wrong? The way >Plentonius ordered Dara Happan myth works - but it is not the only >way that could have been done.
Well, it goes back to causality. If Emperor X is Y's grandson, and everyone who goes back find that Y is X grandson, there seems to be a cause and effect. Similarly if everyone who quests finds that cutting off someone's leg means they can't walk, that seems to be cause and effect.
Now I guess the arguement is that all these people are people who have a contemporary view of time and then impose it upon their environment when they quest. But then the question is, what is the difference between there being something like time and there being no time but everyone who ever encounters makes there be time. In the end, there is no difference to how it works and if you can't find a difference, does it exist?