Absolutely, and from my understanding such dual concepts (Life/Death, Spirit/Embodied, Hunter/Prey, Eater/Eaten) underpin their whole mythology.
> Praxians would certainly want
> ghosts laid to rest, but you won't get sacred
> societies mustering in response to rumors of undead. etc.
I suspect that you would, and that the main antagonists in their mythology would be undead. I see the shamen in praxian societies being very wary of undead and seeing themselves and all good spiritist followers as guardians against such blurring of the boundaries that define their philosophy.
Peter Metcalfe:
> The Praxians and Trolls are animist yet do not hate undead.
We have to be careful with Storm Bull and Zorak Zoran. These cults are considered useful outsiders within their own societies. We shouldn't draw too many conclusions from these examples about the societies as a whole.
In the case of attitudes to chaos in prax (hatred or fear) I am not saying that it is not evil or that it isn't part of their mythology and something to be feared or destroyed. I am saying that it is probably not the central evil in their mythology.
Nearly all animist societies have been heavily influenced by their surrounding cultures and so it is not easy to define animists in isolation, but I feel that the mythology that deals with chaos (a real threat in the world) will either by imported or overlaid onto the existing mythologies.
I am currently running an animist campaign (Right-Arm Islands) and am exploring some of these themes as well as defining heroquesting in animist terms, and I am finding it helpful to define attitudes to undead and chaos by viewing it this way. It certainly appears consistent with the new view of otherworlds in Heroquest, as well as some of the more general material in Arcane Lore.
Here we appear to have correlatons with
Essence/Entropy Theist/Chaos Animist/Undead
Jamie Mac
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