>>> The Lunar version of Illumination in ILH2 is *not* meant to represent the
>>> Nysalorean version as presented in RQ. It does some of the same things,
>>> but
>>> it also has its differences.
>>
>> Ah - thanks for that. I wasn't sure if it was a replacement, a
>> development of it (I mean in terms of the writing, in Glorantha it
>> probably would have come about that way) or some separate approach. I
>> take it it is the last then?
>
> Yes. It is *not* intended as a "Heroquest version" of "RuneQuest
> Illumination". Lunar illumination/Seventh Soul is related to Nysaloran
> Illumination, because Nysalor was "just" a mask of the Goddess, but no-one
> knows what his rites really were, after all this time.
Thanks. *Personally* I find the Lunar's claim that the Red Goddess is Nysalor/Rashoran a little hard to take. The material I've seen on it seems to be written very much from a Lunar point of view, so the truth of it is debatable. Is Rashoran/Sedenya as one entity "fact", Lunar propaganda or YGWV?
>> So it is, in part, a way to resist the psychic imperative to violate the
>> moral laws of the cosmos (trying to remember the owrds in CoT)?
>
> I'd allow it to be used that way. It can be used to keep from going mad (or
> sane...), and allows you to overcome your nature through Understanding of
> the All.
Thanks
Michael
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