The Spirit of the Season

From: Erik Sieurin <BV9521_at_utb.hb.se>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 17:05:54 +0100

Michael R:
> The big problem is to decide if the Gloranthan year consists of the usual
> four seasons (spring/sea; summer/fire; autumn/earth; winter/dark) and an
> extra, non-RW, storm season, or if the gloranthan year follow the
> traditional seasonal progression, but split up in five parts.
If you think of the year's seasons as divided up by the solar events, five seasons seem strange, yes. But the RW Same speak about themselves as "the people of seven seasons" - there are certainly other things than the state of the Sun which are important.

> Another, intertwined, problem is whether the Runes of the calendar have
> actual impact and actually shape the year or are just nifty, though
> ultimately arbitrary, ways of keeping track of time.
I seriously doubt that the guys who invented the calendar would do it arbitrarily - there IS connection between various Holy Days we know and the runic names of the weeks and seasons. That doesn't mean it is 100% accurate description of the fluctuations of Mana/Life Force/Breath through Glorantha, but they sure ain't just arbitrary.

Erik Sieurin

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