> humorous (or humourous, depending on where you stand
>relative to the Atlantic Ocean)
Alas no! Just when you think you've got hold of it the English language squirms away like Eurmal slipping out of his skin and turns to thumb its nose at you! It's humorous on both sides of the Big Pond - though it _is_ humourless not humorless in British English - odd eh?
Now it's pretty obvious that language varies from country to country - I believe the first European traders to reach India in the post-Vasco da Gama age of exploration thought that the Hindus they met were Christians because of the way they prayed with their palms together
So - if RW folks can recognise that names for god vary more readily than they spot the difference between rites (you're praying to whom? Vishnu? Ah, must be their word for God, Father Domingo, they're praying the right way) - why aren't there more cases in Glorantha where gods with different names in different parts of the world are generally recognised to be the same being?
Just a thought
Richard Crawley
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