Interesting, but here my Glorantha varies.
> Let's look at the facts.
> * Oren Parond is Sorcerous Veneration
> * White Mirror is Theistic Sacrifice
> * Net Weaver could be Animism.
IMG, Thella is a mystic entity who has delayed her own liberation (bodhisattva style) in order to bind together the islands which shattered when Avanapdur falls and to protect the land of dreams from the Nightmare. This binding of the islands is often
Oren Parond is the "pure" mystic expression, which cannot be worshipped in any meaningful way. But, as I think that "everyday mysticism", "mystic cults" or whatever we choose to call the cults which rise from the misunderstandings of lesser mortals, it is quite possible that the cult of Thella has both theist and animist magic, like the Teshnan cults.
The image of capturing dreams like spirits is tempting.
> And Dreams have a natural cyclicism of their own - all of existence
> rotates between Waking, Sleeping, and Dreaming.
But those who go for the deeper understanding seek to be both waking and dreaming, thus breaking the cycle.
> I'm interesting in hearing what people think, and what roles, if any,
> Dream Magic and Thella have played in your Gloranthas.
Well, I'm one of the inventors of Thella, but I haven't played a game and explored this more practically since before Revealed Mythologies, when we had a very different understanding of both mystics and Thella.
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