The material world is the convergence of the six otherworlds (mystic, sorcerous, theistic, animist, celestial, underworld). Imagine the trick where you blow six bubbles and stick them together, then stick a straw in between them and blow air into the gap - you get a bubble cube. What shape is Glorantha? A cube, but the bubbles all overlap. In the West, sorcery rules supreme - the rules of magic are the rules of sorcery. A powerful theist, animist, mystic, or whatever can go there and try to prove their truth to be true, but they will find it difficult. The further west they go, the harder it is to prove that their truth is true, because it *is* less true. In highland Sartar, Elmal *is* the sun, can be *proven* to be the sun, unless someone with a particularly strong identification to Yelm the Sun comes along and disproves it. This is not the same as belief creating truth, although belief is a necessary prerequisite for proving a truth. Unless you're a God Learner.
That's how I see it.
Philip Hibbs http://www.snark.freeserve.co.uk/ Opinions expressed may not even be my own, let alone those of any organisations, nations, species, or schools of thought to which I may be affiliated.
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