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From: Steven R Lieb <liebx004_at_maroon.tc.umn.edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 23:03:24 -0500

Someone recently suggested "The time falling bodies take to light" by Irwin Thompson (?) as a good source for Glorantha mythopoeic understanding. (I seem to recall that it was suggested that GS read it and built his ideas therefrom, but i maybe dreamed that...)

Anyway, great book. I frankly am V E R Y leery of the pseudoscientics who see every fence as a "male phallic territorial marker" and every damn hole in the ground as a "attempt to recreate the womb" or some such nonsense
(we've all read it, i'm sure!)

I feared this book was going to be a rant in this direction. However, I gritted my teeth, got thru the first chapter, and am reluctantly starting to agree with some (not all by any means) of his assertions. He's just too well supported and his prose is too readable to dismiss. I would heartily suggest this as a source reading for anyone interested in the deeper elements of the Gloranthan myth.

(And be prepared for the occasional goosebump when you read something like
"and it is natural to evolve a matriarchal, lunar religion." and then go off about basing it on the color red or some such thing. eeek!) - -Steve (liebx004_at_tc.umn.edu)

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