That was me, unless Sandy repeated it somewhere. All the hairstyle and clothing notes on Praxians in Codex #1 were mine.
> I probably shouldn't mention that the Basmoli not only have
>dreadlocks, but include hazia use religiously, and have an
>unusual and distinctive mode of speech...... :-)
I and I donno wat you tokking, mon.
Michael Hitchens says, apropos of self-aware gods:
>Given that we are working with a fictional world (and therefore
>empiricism is out) all we can do is logical exrapolation from
>the known facts.
Well, that's not actually the only method, and often not the best method. The things that strike me as the most Gloranthan are often not extrapolations from what we know, but are instead inspirations. On general principles, I prefer one inspired original myth or folktale to any amount of scholarly discussion.
Re: Yelmalio/Elmal divination
Hum, I forget now why I said that Yelmalio would recognize an
Elmal initiate, but not vice versa. I think it was my thinking
that Yelmalio is a modified version of Elmal, sort of Elmal Plus.
I'm obviously coming down on the side which says that it's error
to call the gods entities. Anyway, a bit of mystery makes for a
more interesting world.
As I may have said before, even in Tekumel, where the gods are explicitly entities, the greatest theologian of the world said that the gods are like rocks seen in a stream: not where we think they are, and when we try to grasp them, elusive. Also, Tekumel went through a period of tens of thousands of years during which individual gods were worshiped by several names. (I don't know of any case where two different gods were worshiped under the same name, though.)
What Greg Stafford has said about the gods: They are no more than the combination of their runes.
Re: Michael H's urbanization theory of Sartar It's so crazy it just might be true!
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