OK, if your version is the case, how can any misapplied worship last for any length of time? The first time anyone makes a serious HQ to the otherworld, they will find out they are wrong. From what I can see, misapplied worship is almost never a case of "we know she's not really a spirit, but we don't know any other way to worship". Misapplied worship seems to always describe the entity as being, in fact, believed to be something other than it is. (i.e. -- the Entire Aeolian Church).
So while what you say makes sense under the rules, it doesn't seem to work to explain what really goes on in Glorantha, unfortunately.
LC
On Wed, 2005-22-06 at 04:47 -0700, Chris Lemens wrote:
> Take a look at Heroquest page 110 under “Otherworld
> Travel and Safety”. Let’s suppose for a moment that
> Inora is really a spirit and I am her Heortling
> worshipper. I want to believe that she is a goddess.
> I travel to her otherworld home. It may be
> immediately obvious to me that this is a false home
> because, unlike Orlanth’s Halls, “such locations are
> troubled, subject to attacks by demons and monsters.”
> Even if it is not, I can test my hypothesis that she
> is really a goddess by traveling outside her false
> home, where I will suffer a -20 on my Soul Vision (so
> everything around me will be difficult to see, unlike
> when I am on the GodPlane); my Mythology of Inora will
> not tell me where I am; horrible spirits may attack
> me; etc. It will be clear to me, right up until my
> tragic end, that Inora was a spirit. When I don’t
> come back, my clan-mates will believe that Inora is a
> spirit.
>
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