veneration vs. worship

From: styopa_at_iname.com
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 21:43:12 -0600


>Subject: Worship of Saints
>Brian Maloney: Do all Malkioni who have Saints worship them?
>
>Veneration is synonymous with a particular kind of Worship in
>gloranthan contexts, just like magic is synomymous with
>religion. [snip] these distinctions ... have little meaning
>in glorantha.
>
>- --Peter Metcalfe

But also IMO, while to our 'enlightened, out-of-game' context this distinction is of little import, I'd say that in-Glorantha the distinction *does* mean just as much to, say, a iconoclast Rokari theologist as it would have to Thomas Aquinas. Similarly, the ACTUAL difference (again, in-game) to a Malkioni Farmer-caste probably means functionally no more than it did to medieval serfs ("Oh, it's time for the Winter Solstice sacrifice to ... what, we're calling it Christmas this year? No, I don't care..where's my ale?")

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