>Modern Malkioni do [consider the anthropomorphisation of the cosmos as
>wrong], but not the older styles. The Brithini (the oldest
>strain) have no problems with personalizing dieties --- some of the
>"dieties" used to be their neighbors up the way, before they decided
>to set themselves up as "gods" to con the pagans.
The Brithini do have a problem with this. The deification of their neighbours led to the downfall of the Cosmos that only Zzabur's great spell managed to reverse. They don't even allow outsiders to worship their erstwhile neighbours or even Saints within their lands.
>The Carmanians
>(another strain relatively untouched by the God Learners) worship
>gods very much as "real" theists do, except for the magi who worship
>Idovanus (their IG name) alone, and who are alone in worshipping Him
>only.
The Carmanians were intensely and traumatically touched by the God Learners. Their current practices (worship of Gods) was partly a reaction caused by that defeat. Before the God Learners came, they were probably a mixed bunch of Malkioni knights and pagan sidekicks. But the God Learner defeat amongst other events showed the Carmanians that they had been unintentionally worshipping the Lie.
Hence their response was for most Malkioni to become full-blown pagans (with appropiate theology of salvation being worked out) and the Viziers stoll practiced sorcery (as they are learned enough to avoid the Lie). Hence the Carmanians are a post God-Learner strain.
>The Rokari went to the extreme of shunning
>them even in the form of Malkioni saints.
The Rokari do worship Saints and their churches are packed with their relics and icons. Some iconoclasts disapprove...
End of The Glorantha Digest V7 #269
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