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From: RuneQuest-Request@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (RQ Digest Maintainer)
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Subject: RuneQuest Daily, Fri, 09 Jul 1993, part 1
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From: STEVEG@ARC.UG.EDS.COM (Entropy needs no maintenance)
Subject: Who was that sun god?
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Date: 8 Jul 93 02:28:28 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 1244
johnjmedway reported (re Greg's next book)
>Did you say Elmal? Yelmalio? No no no.
>It was Antirius who fought at the Hill of Gold.
>
>Stafford: "Those guys who had problems with Elmal
> will really piss their pants over this."
>
>Yep.
There are several ways to take the tale of Antirius. Same god, different
name? or perhaps an instance of the Roman custom of making
analogy-identifications of other folks gods; talking of "The German Hercules"
meaning Thor, and so forth (so Elmal is "The Orlanthi Antirius" - and perhaps
Yelmalio is "The Aldryami Antirius")? How objective can one be in saying that
one figure in myth is the same as (or differs from) another, anyway?
I only have a fairly mundane problem with the Yelmalio/Elmal revision : Who
were those Sun Dome Templars invited to Prax in the late 8th century ST, and
who did they worship?
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From: f6ri@midway.uchicago.edu (charles gregory fried)
Subject: Bill Clinton, Ancestor Worshiper
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Date: 8 Jul 93 18:25:16 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 1245
Greg Fried here.
Joerg:
That was me using Clinton as an example of someone who must practice ancestor
worship as an aspect of his official duties of office.
Now all this business about kingship (or queenship) NECESSARILY involving
ancestor worship and lineage gets me thinking. WHat should we think of
elective office in Glorantha? SOmeone today said that in Glorantha authority
and (magical) power are congruent, and that seems right to me. Thus, kingly
status is intimately bound up with ritual questions such as direct lineage
etc. No "mundane" kingship, as it was nicely put. But then would elective
office be an expression of "mundane" politics? Would atheists prefer
democracy in Glorantha? This would seem to follow, since Gloranthan atheists
want to negate the influence of mythic entities over the Nowtime. (Don't
they?) If elected office (and I'm not talking about elected CULT office --
although it can be hard to distinguish cult and political office in
GLorantha) need not depend on lineage, what form of ancestor worship would
such an office give one access to? Presumably all the spirits of the
collective "citizens" of the regime in question.
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Nick:
Yes, a paper, scissor, rock sort of game, based on that pentagram MIGHT
satisfy me, if it were sophisticated enough. Do y?
GF out.
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From: tzunder@cix.compulink.co.uk (Tom Zunder)
Subject: StoConTrent
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Date: 8 Jul 93 21:52:34 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 1246
Is nayone from the RQ Digest going to StoConTrent? (10-12 sept, Keele
University, UK)
I am toying with going and would do so if I knew other Digesters would be
there, we could play RQ and Tekumel all weekend!
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From: tzunder@cix.compulink.co.uk (Tom Zunder)
Subject: Hello
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Date: 8 Jul 93 21:52:40 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 1247
Hi!
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