Re: The myth of Eternal Return

From: Guy Hoyle <guy.hoyle_at_42aTIhusk8ZM_0-GQXIo8yS7Qn_6HPcDj7EbFIQ8CDQ4jkkAvSZ_5RlgZReRDzlcPo>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:09:17 -0600


It could go the other way around, too: an encounter with a legendary being is remembered as simply an ordinary event. But that would be more like an episode of "Mythbusters" than a Gloranthan adventure.

Guy

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 8:50 AM, <hcarteau_at_KsxOVNJ4kke7rreEI-rxi-rrq1GDTBHM4VJN-MuUy1Os6liSPysoQ6UIfObqTHEpU9MOWhOg.yahoo.invalid> wrote:

>
>
> Selon Greg Stafford <glorantha1_at_68SvsJrALhJ4T1Rcr35qpaq6UG9TUxJyeL6-v6Nqx1eyuewTkGWJvnhZtexR36dufTA7rLCQknwYoI5n.yahoo.invalid <glorantha1%40gmail.com>>:
>
>
> > Herve strikes gold here
> >
> > The Eliade books will all find significant resonances in Glorantha.
> > I first read all of these Eliade books back in the mid 60's, when I was
> > starting to discover Glorantha. They helped me to shape what was going
> on, to
> understand the immaterial view of things.
> >
> > Jeez, I thought you'd all read those by now. Thanks for bringing it up
> Herve!
>
> /// A pleasure. It goes the other way round for me : RPGs did bring me to
> read
> mythology books, look things up in dictionaries and the internet. Talk
> about
> Eternal Return.
>
> A part of this book I like a lot is when the author narrates an anecdote
> about
> how historical events so easily become myths.
>
> In some serbian village in the '30s, a folkorist discovers the sung story
> of a
> young man seduced by a vila (fairy) and fallen from a cliff the day before
> his
> marriage to a local girl forty years ago. The folkorist realizes the bride
> to be
> is still alive and goes to interview her. She explains her fiancee simply
> got
> drunk and fell to his death : a plain, blunt explanation. The folklorist
> goes
> back to the singers and tell them that this woman, first-hand witness if
> there
> ever was one, tells a different story ! And they all answer the old hag has
> lost
> her mind because of her chagrin, and that the Legend is true.
>
> Case in point : a perfectly mundane story, 40 years old, with still-living
> witnesses has become a sung legend in the thirties !
>
> Imagine how easy it must be in a world where Magics actually work and we
> could
> all really meet a vila...
>
>
>

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