>>Absolutely not. To take only the most obvious examples, there were no winds
>>or rains in the Golden Age, the sky was golden not blue, and the sun hung
>>motionless in the centre of Heaven, neither rising nor setting. Nobody,
>>AFAIK, would nowadays refer to this situation as "natural".
>But, but, all your posts on why chaos was unnatural is because it wasn't
>part of Glorantha as originally created. Following that logic, all the
>above is, in some sense, "unnatural".
Not at all, they grew from, or were created from the stuff of Glorantha itself. Before axes were invented there were no axes, yet they were created from metal and wood which was part of Glorantha and so they are still part of it. Storm was born from earth and sky and so is natural.
>To accept wind, rain, etc. as natural (which I agree with you 100% on) you
>also have to accept Chaos as natural.
Every time a child is born something new is created, but it is created from within Glorantha through natural processes. Chaos intrudes into the world from outside it and so is unnatural. It's a very simple distinction. You're talking about form, whereas we're talking about substance.
Please, please read the articles on Chaos on the www.glorantha.com website. It's perfectly clear about much this.
Simon Hibbs
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