Re: Re: Winter Animists

From: Light Castle <light_castle_at_...>
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 16:11:04 -0400

Just to go back to an old post I forgot to answer, I wanted to thank you for this one. It really cleared things up a lot for me, and it is much clearer than what is in the book. Working from the "they are all mixed a bit anyway" base with a "sometimes the only way to worship for you weirdos who want something different is misapplied", that doesn't bother me so much.

LC  

On Tue, 2005-21-06 at 19:00 -0700, Roderick and Ellen Robertson wrote:
> >
>
> Nothing is as Red, White and Blue as the three worlds model makes it out (I
> would say "Black and White", but there's three worlds, and most of the
> readers of the list belong to countries whose flags have RWB as their
> primary colors - this isn't an intentional attempt to impose "Americanism"
> on the list, really!).
>
> People will worship what and how their culture dictates. While "no-one knows
> the numbers", they'll find the "best" solution (ie, not Misapplied worship)
> for themselves as often as possible. But sometimes it just can't be done.
> The historical record gets murky, and the people end up performing the
> "wrong" rites, but continue doing them for cultural reasosn ("It was good
> enough for grandad, it's good enough for you, boy").
>
> To me, misapplied worship is Glorantha's (not Greg's, or Robin's or mine)
> revenge on mini-maxers. "What, the ways of Waha aren't good enough for you,
> you want to worship Sword Man? Fine, suffer and ye shall be rewarded."
> Misapplied Worship is rarely (okay, the Aeolian church, but that's a fringe
> group, really) a main way of worship, instead, it's for wierdoes that can't
> hack the faith of their ancestors.
>