Most tribal cultures are very conservative; since there is a clear distinction between animals and people (and a spell or something to change one to the other -- assuming that made the leap from RQ to HQ and from one-system-fits-all magic to theism/animism), I can't see Praxians thinking "Outlanders are the same as animals."
>
> >> But I didn't say anything about eating other Praxians, I spoke about
> >> eating outlanders who are _not_ from other tribes.
> >>
> > I dunno; you think other Praxians wouldn't use this as an excuse if it
> was
> > available?
>
> They could but they are highly unlikely to do so because they are human
> and their taboo against eating their own extends to the human
> Outlanders. This taboo does not bind the Morokanth because the human
> outlanders are not their own.
>
The Praxian divide (as far as legitimate food is concerned) is between "animals that can eat off the land" and "people who eat animals." I don't think Praxians see Morokanth as "non-humans" so much as "other people who know how to behave" (as opposed to Heortlings, Lunars, Uz, Mostali, etc who are "other people who don't know how to behave"). Sure, Morokanth are weird, and you wouldn't want your sister to marry one, but you wouldn't want your sister to marry a High Llama, either, with their stuck-up ways or an Impala who can't hold his own in a manly hand-to-hand fight, or Spirits preserve you, some Outlander who doesn't even know what is decent behavior. Morokanth are weird, but they are more like other Praxians than anyone else, and they have fundamentally the same taboos and outlooks as their fellow Praxians.
> I would think Waha's law would be more absolute and less
> loop-hole-filled. "Don't eat this plant; eat that kind of animal."
Waha isn't the writer of Leviticus (which is more absolute and still
> filled with loopholes). He teaches people a way to survive because life
> out there on the wastes is absolutely brutal. They don't have the
> luxury of extensive lists of kosher food. If its edible (and isn't a
> horse), then Waha says dig in.
>
> I don't think they have extensive lists of kosher foods, although I expect
there is a lot of lore on what can be eaten by people and what has to be
eaten by an animal first (Praxians must eat some plant matter), some of it
established by Waha or other spirits, some it established by observation.
Don't eat other people is a fairly fundamental law.
> > Presumably, Waha laid down some sort of laws that define what separates a
> > person from an animal.
> So how would Waha consider the Newtlings who are sometimes killed for
> their tails?
>
Is this a Praxian thing? I thought it was the Lunars (and maybe the Pavisians) who hunted Newtlings....
Anyway, maybe this is also a YGWV. I prefer a Glorantha with less casual cannibalism; others will feel otherwise.
Peter Larsen
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