Re: Gnosticism in Glorantha

From: Peter Larsen <p3larsen_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 11:17:55 -0400

I kind of thought of the Malkionic view is sort of like classical Neoplatonism (with its many variations) rather than Gnosticism. Plotinus is plenty weird, if your players incline that way, and it's a great way to break the "all Gloranthan Mysticism is sort of like a mishmash of Buddhist ideas that sometimes gets floated.

I've been listening to Peter Adamson's podcast -- The History of Philosophy (without Any Gaps) (http://www.historyofphilosophy.net/) (also iTumes) -- he's a philosophy professor that records a very listenable but content-heavy series of episodes tracing the development of Western Philosophy from Thales to the present day. He's getting toward the end of year 3, and has completed the Ancient West, and is now looking at Islamic Medieval Philosophy before jumping to the European Middle Ages. There is a ton of great ideas in this podcast that will easily fit into many different Gloranthan cultures with scarcely any editing -- the Mostali could take on Zeno's ideas about time, I could imagine some of Heraclitus going well in Dara Happa, the Lunars could have both Skeptics and Stoics, and so on.

Peter Larsen

On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_quicksilver.net.nz
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> On 6/7/2013 6:14 AM, zonork wrote:
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> > (and I think Malkion is not unrelated to the mysticism, this is pure
> speculation but I think it was just a brithini touched by the transcendent
> realm, became enlightened and resurrects becoming transcendent Zzabur
> really thought he was mad because his logical system is limited to magist
> vision and he could not understand the truth of Malkion. *)
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> Other way around. Malkion and Zzabur are Transcendent Beings that
> became material.
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> --Peter Metcalfe
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