Humm, my question is about elemental darkness, not about night. In Glorantha darkness is an element. What I'm interested is on what happens to this element. I'm looking for the *naturalistic* explanation. Not to the mythical explanation.
Another point is that the reason why I asked this question resulted from the discussion on the (in)existance of time zones in Glorantha. Somehow, it seemed hod to me to discuss this without acknowledging the role that darkness should play on day/night patterns.
James Frusetta:
>> If the dark at night is elemental darkness, where does it came from? And
>> where does it go in daylight?
> It's the "physical presence" of Xentha, who She Who Shadows Yelm, and
> in my book she's basically "enveloping" Glorantha in herself (instead of
> puking out light, like Yelmy).
>
> Alternatively, considering Xentha's pretty basic cult belief, she could
> just be the Mega Economy Sized version of the Shadows of Shadows Dance,
> so darn big she fills the entire lozenge.
Daniel McCluskey:
> There is still darkness around in the daytime ('cause you can still hear
> stuff, and you can see it lurking behind trees and under rocks ;-) but
> Xentha takes most of it with her when she visits the underworld.
It seems that darkness is something like a *mist*. In a sense, its manifestation is more similar to air or wather then to light. I like James' "enveloping" description above.
Now, I would suggest that Glorantha is enveloped in darkness.
When Yelm raises in the sky, he raises straigth above into a given
altitude. He then crosses Glorantha, in a straight line, parallel to the
plane surface below him.
When he reaches the end of his sky road, he just descends straigth to hell
bellow.
Since Glorantha his envelopped in darkness, when Yelm crosses he pushes
darkness apart. (Like someone crossing mud; or think about Moises crossing
the read sea, but with a gigantic light god instead of small humans.)
As soon as Yelm moves away, darkness re-enters the void.
In that way, Glorantha will have time zones, but not for reasons based on
RW astronomy.
Comments?
Sergio
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