Crashing together and splitting apart.

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_cs.ucc.ie>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 17:27:15 +0100 (BST)

mdawson:
> Well, speaking of "various philosophies", it really seems odd to think of
> the world devolving from an occasion where various originally separate
> realms (sorcerous, spirit, theist) _collide_.
>
> Me, I like the idea that Glorantha as it is results from them _fracturing_.
>
> For example, if the Green Age ends when (among other things) entities
> realize they are different from each other, why do things happen the other
> way at a higher level?

Higher level? In the Green Age, there only _is_ one level, surely.

> Didn't Everything come from the Original One Thing?

I think the "when worlds collide" model stems from an "überaccount" attempting to reconcile the different worldviews. The theists say (several different variations on) _this_, the animists say _that_, obviously they can't all be right -- or can they? It's equally possible that they're different views on essentially the same thing, that thing simply being hard to comprehend, and produce a single, unified description of it.

> At the same time, I actually LIKE the idea that most philosophers think of
> the emergence of the various planes as one of several alien magics
> intruding into their mythic paradise.

If you like: perhaps one can regard it as a single world that's the same up until the moment of the end of the Green Age. At that point, each world separates (or becomes aware that it's separate), and in that same instant becomes aware of each of the other worlds, now perceived as something separate and alien.

Cheers,
Alex.

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