Re: Myths are not truth.

From: contracycle <gamartin_at_...>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:54:05 -0000

> in Glorantha, myths are not ideology they are reality. So

No, they are not - because they are subject to two types of relativism.

describing
> Sun County as a society whose myth of the solar father god serves
to
> perpetuate patriarchal property relations might make for good
> sociology -- but one hell of a dull RPG.
>

> What RPG on Earth provides the social-materialistic truth that is
> befuddled by myths of the respective cultures of the setting?

None, but then most don;t make a point of giving you ONLY mutyhical information befuddled by the setting; they generally give you real description.

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