> > I'm frankly still entirely at a loss as to Greg's
> > thinking, and indeed his meaning here. If
> > the "different" animals don't have to be separate
> > species (whatever that means (esp. in Glorantha),
> > can evidently interbreed enthusiastically, then I
> > can't see how it can be anything other than a
> > defeasible, if not outright infeasible, assumption
> > that origins in different otherworlds must maintain
> > some sort of strictly separate identity. Even
> > setting aside the earlier question of their
> > "convergence" to similar but doggedly separate
> > entities.
> >
> > It seems to me that of course, in some cases there
> > will be entirely different, mythically valid
> > accounts for similar-but-different things.
> > But equally, it's the nature of myth that there will
> > be entirely different, mythically valid accounts of
> > the _same_ thing, in some cases. (Be it a species
> > of animal, the sun, etc.) If there this were not so
> > in Glorantha, I don't see how this can help but make
> > it a less interesting place mythically than it
> > otherwise would be -- and indeed hitherto appeared
> > to be. After all, animals, like humans, are
> > creature of the inner world; it's not as if
> > they _have_ to be irrevocably wedded to one and only
> > one other world.
Chris :
> This does not, of course, help you answer your
> question from an external viewpoint, if you accept the
> validity of such. I'd use the phrase "everything is
> made of everything" to explain any result I want.
>
> On your last point (that animals, like humans, are
> made of everything, so should not be wedded to one
> particular otherworld), I'd point out that socially
> cohesive groups of humans tend to be wedded to
> particular otherworlds. Perhaps this is true for
> reasons that are also true for animals. It could be
> learned behavior, or it could be something about
> Glorantha that encourages it, depsite any failure of
> learned behavior.
From a GL POV, these are (in current Glorantha) effects of the Great Compromise, more than anything else IMO.
Julian Lord
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