Hi Greg
I hear what you are saying re the word celts.
What would you say that the *nearest* terrestial analogue to YOUR
Glorantha is Iron Age Britain (pre roman), Iron Picts (scots), Iron
Age Irish, Vikings, Angles - considering that none of them probably
hit the nail on the head.
Cheers
Rob
>
> YGWV
>
> David Dunham wrote:
> > >Orlanthi culture, so I'm wondering how
> > >that culture could be so wide spread, while at the same time
being so
> > >vehemently individualistic.
> >
> > Doesn't this more or less describe the Celts?
>
> Just for the record, the term Celt is almost meaningless.
> It really means, "Everyone north of our civilized land."
> The cultures that were so included had a tremendous variety of
> languages, customs and so on.
> A lot of the time we see, in books whose authors ought to know
better, a
> compilation of artifacts all labeled Celtic. So we have a helmet
from
> here, a cauldron from there, and so on. But in fact, this would be
the
> equivalent of saying "American Indians lived in tipis, carved
totem
> poles and had birch bark canoes," and meaning that this was one
people,
> not three extremely diferent and diverse cultures.
>
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Greg Stafford
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