Abiding Book

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_voyager.co.nz>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 13:08:08 +1200

>>> Finally [the God Learners] developed a magical ritual to "announce"
>>> their revelation.

Me>> Would you have such cynicism at the core of every gloranthan
>> religion? If not, then why tar the God Learners with such a
>> brush?

>I am happy to say that the Seven Mothers developed a magical ritual
>to bring the Red Goddess back to the world, and that 27 years later she
>performed a magical ritual of her own to attain Apotheosis. Is this
>cynical?

There is a world of difference between that and performing a ritual to convince guillible onlookers to accept something decided on beforehand (that Charles appeared to suggest).

>> The Loskalmi and the Rokari are definitely _not_ similar.

>They are far more similar than the Loskalmi and the Uncolings, or
>the Rokari and the Orlanthi, surely?

But this level of similarity is not due to the Abiding Book.

• --Peter Metcalfe

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