>> And non-chaotic spontaneous generation *used* to happen, back >> in the Green Age, and possibly later, but not since time began, >> IMO.
Andrew E. Larsen
> Why not? Part of a holding a Fertility rune involves generating
> life.
Usually birthing life, parthenogenetic or sexually. Or like dryads seeding and growing special trees to produce certain items.
> Each diety generates life in its own manner, so why not allow some
> dieties to spontaneuously generate life?
Ratslaff did, when he farted. I guess Trickster still might do the trick now and then. Apart from that, unleashed creation is one of the definitions of chaos.
> SponGen is a similar phenomenon, except that it involves
> the radical transformation of matter from one thing into another
> (meat slowly transforming into maggots and flies). This seems to
> follow its own internal laws (pussywillows turn into snakes only
> if they sit in water, and they only turn into snakes, not birds
> or fish or whatever). So its not inherently chaotic. It's only
> problematic from a RW scientific viewpoint.
But is it newly created life, or is it some sort of spirit assuming a new form?
End of The Glorantha Digest V7 #288
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