Trevor Browne says, immediately after discussion of Yelm:
> Maybe the gods are just so
> abstracted from mortal understanding that the worshippers interpret
> heroquest visions and experiences as events, when really they are just
> metaphysical interactions of the heroplane. I do however think that things
> were a lot different before the dawn.
The Dara Happans don't, though! Well, 'different' in that one was more likely to have one's brains eaten by a dijigelm whilst one was still attempting to use them, but not different in the above sense.
I'm beginning to doubt that even Greg believes their/his own propaganda on this point, though -- I suspect that in his deepest darkest Id, he actually does believe in the GodTime, the Compromise, and all that quaint nonsense. However I'm not about to advocate running One's Own Glorantha on the basis of what someone thinks Greg thinks -- running it taking into account what people maintain that he _said_ is hard enough!
> Anybody have any opinions or evidence which contradicts these theories, or
> supports them for that matter.
I agree with the general thrust of your remarks (the ones I entirely deleted, life being, as it is, rather cruel). To think of the Divine as being a set of nice neat discrete entities called "gods" is probably only an abstraction of the truth. Worshipped "beings" seem to manage to contrive to be distinct one moment, and for another purpose, somehow ultimately the same; in some cases, like the Entekos/Dendara matter, it looks as if the Divine is just 'aving a larf at some worshippers expense just because "it" can.
Slainte,
Alex.
End of The Glorantha Digest V6 #282
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