- Greg Stafford <Greg_at_...> wrote:
> I suggest that curious parties for Gloranthan
> mythological influences
> need to read some original sources, like the Eddas,
> Vedas, Upanishads,
> and Hermes Trismegistus etc. and for influences,
> check out Eliade,
> Levi-Strauss, Dumezil, heck, even Loomis, Crowley
> etc.
And the Sumerian stuff, Inanna and so on, for an early
version of the LBQ (Fay Sampson's Star Dancer is an
easy read). Gilgamesh. The Mabinogion. The last lot of
stories I wrote borrowed from Greek myths and Aesop,
and they fitted Glorantha surprisingly well.
Wagner....
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