Re: Oorsu Sara from Nils Weinander on 2002-08-26 (Glorantha Digest Vol 09)

From: Nils Weinander <nils_at_weinander.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 09:22:06 +0200

Some off-list correspondence alerted me that the original question was remarkably ill put. Never use the god learners' name in vain...

Me & Peter M:

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>>Turning it the other way round, the Vithelans remember the
>>Oorsu Sara was as almost destroying the cosmos. Why don't
>>other cultures have anything similar in early mythical ages?

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> Oorsu Sara happened at the end of the God's Cycle which is
> the equivalent of the end of the Storm Age. At this time elsewhere,
> the Storm Tribe was having its arse kicked at Stormfall, Malkion
> had been exiled while the Vadeli were attacking and the Artmali
> Empire was destroyed by Firefall. I don't think these people would
> have noticed an ex-mystic conquering all of Vithela.

But to the Vithelans it wasn't just that, but an event of the same scale as the great darkness to the Genertelans, when the very fabric of existence broke down.

This whole line of pondering started off from the description of the otherworlds collapsing/crashing/mixing during the great darkness. Wouldn't such an effect be noticed in Vithela even if the great darkness as such wasn't? From that I could only notice that Vithelan myth has its own event with similar convulsions, but clearly not "at the same time". Wouldn't that be noticeable elsewhere?

Your summary of "concurrent" events make it clear that it isn't. So, the (to me) somewhat surprising conclusion is that the interaction of otherworlds isn't universal.

Nils Weinander
We sail on a ship made of dreams.

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