I hope I can clarify something here. Let me start with a clarification that verges upon a confession: sometimes the way that words are used in Glorantha have particular or peculiar meanings (to say nothing of the intentional obscurity that I put in.)
At 05:06 PM 4/10/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>Are we talking about a difference of EVIDENCE or a difference of FAITH? I
>feel we are wholly conflating faith and experience, here, and I am becoming
>more rather than less confused. This description above seems to suggest
>that Brithini, Malkioni et al are all theists, albeit with some internal
>heresy running around.
The questions you are asking have been asked in Glorantha, and the various
answers that have been forwarded to the list are all (I am sure)
represented in various sects and factions within the collective Malkioni.
The Brithini certainly acknowledge the existence of gods, spirits and
demons of all types. Over the millennia of their existence they have
developed spells against every one of those foes.
I labelled the Brithini "atheists" because they have never uncovered any
evidence that can be proved to be anything other than a natural law. Their
knowledge was established by superior beings of a previous age and the
modern Brithini follow those ancient instructions now.
They do not have a God, but a force. They do not worship God, or even
worship at all. Hence atheists.
They consider the other Malkioni to be deluded by personifying the creative
energy, etc.
>>
>> The Brithini and Zzaburi don't believe in an afterlife, either.
>Hmm. Why not? do they not recognise the existance of the hero planes?
Some living Brithini remember being alive in the times when other people
have to go to the Hero Plane. But I think you mean Sorcery Plane here.
The Brithini do recognize the sorcery plane of course, since their ancestors helped to create it in ancient times. However, a "soul" doesn't exist there but disappears into its component parts of body and energy.
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