>I agree 99%. But my impression of the early replies that tweaked my strong
>reaction :-) was that they were dogmatic absolute truths, not mere views of
>the Orlanthi. If I misunderstood, me bad.
IMHO (of course) there are many objective truths we can state about Glorantha. Not everything is culturaly relative. That chaos was introduced to glorantha from outside it is I think one of them. Whether or not you consider this to be relevent when discussing if it's natural or not may well be a matter of opinion and cultural perspective.
>I used to read it that way, but have also read stories where he was born,
>and, after being born, created the air for himself. If this is literally
>true, I have no idea where the air came from......
To take a wild guess, I'd say he probbaly exhaled it. Umath is the primal storm god, father of Urox, Orlanth, etc and so the air is a part of him. Since we know where he came from, no extra-cosmic orrigins for the air are necessery.
Simon Hibbs
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