Re: Glorantha digest, Vol 9 #191 - 6 msgs

From: Joerg Baumgartner <jorganos_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 16:53:40 +0200


Nils:
>>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?

Peter:
>But that's the whole point. The Otherworlds collapsing etc.
>is the Great Darkness which the Vithelans didn't remember
>because of their enlightened viewpoint as I pointed out before.

Those vast majority of Vithelans with less enlightened viewpoints would have tales of woe to tell. And indeed, they do get a change in antigod activities.

The watery invasions appear to me like the perfect measurement of the colliding worlds. In the East as well.

>>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?

>Why should it be? The Malkioni didn't notice Stormfall
>because they had other things to worry about.

We just don't know what Zzabur wrote down about this particular mistake of Worlath. Just because the amount of lore is incomplete, don't assume that there are no traces.

>Yet nobody
>suggests that the Malkioni and Genertelan cosmoses
>were disconnected. So I fail to see why the Vithelan
>events should be any different.

The progress (and regress) of the seas could be the universally measurable effect. While the Seas have usually been portrayed as belonging to the Theist/elementally structured world, they feel right at home as Apdara in Eastern myth (and to some extent, Thinobutan myth).



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