Primitive magic

From: nilsw_at_ibm.net
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 96 20:50:35

David Dunham:
>In my pre-Dawn Peloria
><http://www.pensee.com/dunham/glorantha/oroninela.html>, there aren't
>really spells either (you'd sing or dance, and being part of a group gave
>you more effects). My system is still incomplete, but when a player
>complained that spirit magic was easier, I knew I was on the right track.
>Primitive magic (and I don't mean magic of primitive people) *should* be
>less advanced.

OK, if you had equated "primitive magic" with "magic of primitive people" I would have disagreed immediately, since there is no reason why a people with a "primitive" material culture should have less shamanic or divine magic. However, I do have one question, which people have this primitive magic and why?

The examples, Hsunchen and pre-dawn Pelorians seem like "primitive" people in the material sense and I can't see why there myths should be less deep or their knowledge of the spirit world less profound. Rather  on the contrary, their low technological could give a stronger impetus to delve deeply into the mysteries of the Otherworld than is present in sophisticated, and definitely highly magically able, third age cultures like the western and the Kralorelan.

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