Re: Before Men =/= Green Age?

From: Greg <Greg_at_cuT8LmwFfpLJu4Ffr9tfeyYdggSDolhzjm6oY4iLfR5COT3QMmwvH4gbpH-KxnGnCqGx8pt>
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:28:51 -0800

YGWV Toread DuDerysi wrote:
> <mailto:WorldofGlorantha%40yahoogroups.com>, "Santo Sengupta"
> <s.santo.sengupta_at_...> wrote:
> > I believe the Mythic Age before Humanity is known as the Creation
> Age. Only
> > the Elder Races are capable of HeroQuesting into that era of myth
> and
> > returning.

> I don't think this is the case. As noted in HeroQuest, Revealed
> Mythologies, and a few other places, its quite possible for anyone to
> go to the Green Age with the right HeroQuest. No one does it (except
> to very, very carefully witness crucial cult events) because its just
> too damned dangerous. It's almost certain that you will have done
> something First if you interfere or interact with the
> undifferentiated not-yet-people of the Green Age. And it's also
> certain that you will be someone's ancestral Foe as a result of this.

You are right about the Green Age. You can only ever visit the end of it, because your presence ends it.

BUT, the Green Age is the end of the Creation Age. The actual _creation_ of the world preceded the Green Age, and no human can visit it.

-- 
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Greg Stafford

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