> > Maybe it isn't that easy to tell - is that green
> > fruit an under-ripe
> > lemon or a large lime? Why is that green plum ripe
> > and that one not?
>
> Was that a serious question? Try pressing them. Soft =
> ripe. In the case of melons and similar stuff, press
> on the end opposite the stalk. Scent also helps (and I
> can tell from the far side of the room that the
> peaches in my fruit bowl are now ripe).
But a soft or sweet-smelling fruit could also be rotten. We are the recipients of thousands of years of experiment and education. The Dawn age was filled with people that had lost *everything* except their lives. They lost their godsm, their cultur, and their accumulated knowledge. And what kjnowledge they *did* retain was probably not useful in the new world of the dawn - They were used to a climate where the sun never set, and storms never come. Now they have to deal with weather and night and all those other scary things.
> Still, that's the RW, and maybe Glorantha is less
> cooperative. The alternative explanation is "primitive
> people were stupid", and that's not one I'm ever going
> to accept.
Not stupid, but they had lost their knowledge in the GodsWar. (Ignorant=/Stupid). Culturally, they were truely children, and young ones at that.
There are still "magic incantations" in use today - "Red sky in morning, Sailor take warning", or "Always cross on a new green light" (I don't know if that was part of kindergarten in Britain, but it was drummed into us here in the states).
RR
C'est par mon ordre et pour le bien de l'Etat que le porteur du pr�sent a
fait ce qu'il a fait.
- Richelieu
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