Re: So now that you have your copies of Sartar (RE: possible Sartarite animism)

From: Peter Larsen <p3larsen_at_YEGOboVPTt6U0KsCTXXI4UCAo3c1xoYIzpNpC79NJXAKUDP9bdc8WidM5VGY6ugv0zd>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:27:15 -0500

At one time, as I recall, there was the idea that a very few Beings went back before the Otherworlds separated and therefore operated in each one. Chalana Arroy was one of those (maybe the only one left in Glorantha). Eurmal did something similar, but whether that was because he was a piece of an older Trickster or because he has no respect at all for the Rules, I do not remember.

Peter Larsen

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Trotsky <TTrotsky_at_x4mu91UzH_cK-Yz2Qddk8y_2jdmMaQdloxdAo0cI461HpWzF2B4Vza6tIkzK7bLn0ujuBJm3a8JzCX2UGKm-CQV0z68.yahoo.invalid> wrote:

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>
> Jeff wrote:
> >
> > > I notice several gods of the storm pantheon beyond Kolat & Urox
> > (Chalana Arroy & Odayla in particular) are worshiped through ecstatic
> > adoration. Does this mean that there animistic forms of magic
> > associated with them.
> >
> > In most cases ecstatic adoration (worship without sacrifice of things)
> > is going to be associated with animistic forms of magic. With regards
> > to Odayla, that is true - there are Odaylan spirit societies. However,
> > Chalana Arroy is just anomolous. She is so generous, so merciful, so
> > giving - she does not take sacrifices, just prayers, songs, dances,
> > and adoration.
> >
>
> That seems slightly odd, on the face of it. Is it that CA is accepting
> the adoration as if it were a sacrifice, and that it really isn't the
> same sort of thing as the animists are doing? That is, it looks
> superficially like animist ecstatic practices to an outside observer,
> but what is actually going on (especially from the POV of the
> participants) is something quite different?
> >
>
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