Hi Jane,
>
> > Glorantha
> > hardly has a "simplistic and unreflexive" view of
> > religion, Campbell's model of mythology is hardly
> > discredited,
>
> Well.... to someone who studies this sort of thing
> "for real", I can believe that Campbell was trumped
> by
> later works the way Newton was trumped by Einstein.
Well yes, Campbell would be more integrated rather than discredited if anything. Who's the comparative Einstein in mythology studies to Campbell's Newton however? Levi-Strauss (of whom I have studied quite a lot)?
> That was half the reason for picking Glorantha as a
> universe to play in - because most of the cultures
> WEREN'T based on the assumptions of thousands of
> years
> of male-domination, they were comparatively sane!
:-)
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