Re: Praxian Hell/Jaldonite Otherworld?

From: Kenrae <kenrae_at_vGikS7iB5RrlH7TPF8T98tijixEOrsoQcarDCAiJrkOJtUxfFIT7AaPsF51xxLvWUVyx8>
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 17:19:56 +0200


> Re: Praxian Hell/Jaldonite Otherworld?
> Posted by: "Jeff" richaje_at_sxxMNavVGBqEX0afB3icCHZVLACqRBOv_IA0mYH1UQ9ZyMUNWtqKGaunMuJiwiJMyKwGmwjQXl3Cejvv.yahoo.invalid jeffrichard68
>
> > The God Learners confused their own notions of the afterlife with their understanding of Gloranthan cosmology. We should not make a similar mistake, of importing some specifically mediterranean cosmological notions of Heaven and Hell into Glorantha.
>
> Which you have just done as far as I can see. FWIW, when I wrote the Underworld material in Sartar with Greg (which is canon, btw) the main influences were definitely not Dante (although I did reread Inferno) but Ishtar's descent into Hell, Odysseus and Aenaeid's treks in Hades, and the
> Cinvat Bridge which perjurers cannot cross.

That sounds pretty mediterranean to me ;).

-Sergi Díaz            

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