> > Why? HonEel rescues Sinoda by killing Alanthore and gets corn.
> > Without her intervention, Sinoda gets killed and the crop
> > fails. Alanthore's death is necessary for HonEel's corn rite to
> > succeed and for that reason, the people who play him
> > ("convicted criminals, madmen, or impoverished down-and-outs"
> > Glorantha:Intro pp102) are victims.
>There is absolutely no reason why factions should not have varying
>interpretations of the same event.
I haven't seen anything about divisions among the corn ritualists and the only known dispute is between those who support it and those who want it suppressed. I don't believe mythic events are as mutable in terms of viewpoint as you imply.
>Otherwise we get back into the
>one true Glorantha debates. Perhaps this is better discussed on the
>GD.
I do believe it permissible to give background as to why things were written in a particular way.
--Peter Metcalfe
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