Re: Giants & Dragons

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_cs.ucc.ie>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 02:35:19 +0100 (BST)


Chris Lemens:
> >> Within the entirely speculative context of six axes of magic, I totally
> >> agree with David Cake's idea that dragons become less manifest
>
> Alex Ferguson:
> >Which is why they sit around manifesting as modest phenomena as mountain
> ranges, etc, for centuries?
>
> Actually, he said "otherworldly" and I paraphrased him poorly. If ones
> become less attached to the world, one might leave one's body behind. The
> more worldly one becomes, the more tied one would be to one's body.

Thanks for the clarification. Same disagreement applies.

I think it would be a grave mistake to suppose that a dream dragon represented a dragon leaving its body behind. The dream is not its Self, any more than one of my dreams is.

Cheers,
Alex.


End of The Glorantha Digest V7 #761


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