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  1. Ali the Helering
    Halleluia brother! I completely agree with you, which is why I do not agree with you.😇
  2. Ali the Helering
    Everything we deal with is a particular interpretation of Glorantha. Only Greg was infallible. At least, until the next time we got Gregged. Since the East didn't truly suffer the Darkness, even the Monomyth is a particular interpretation. Or at least it once was.
  3. Ali the Helering
    Everything we work with is a particular interpretation of Glorantha. Greg alone was infallible. Until we got Gregged.
  4. Ali the Helering
    Decline is inevitable, because of the Devil's return. 'Improvement is possible' is a narrative of progress, and yet is overturned again and again. Simply because the apocalypses (sp?) destroy tyrannies doesn't mean that they are anything other than ghastly massacres of innocents and disruptions of society and community interactions.
  5. Ali the Helering
    Nonetheless, the effects on society are devastating, and it takes the affected areas centuries to recover. While a narrative of progress is nice, it doesn't bring the dead back. Not even the Compromise achieved that, except for the privileged deities.
  6. Ali the Helering
    Glorantha is certainly post-apocalyptic, multiply so. Fall of Yelm, fall of Mernita, Syndics Ban, Closing, Dragonkill, one could go on and on. It is clearly written as a descent from a Golden Age.
  7. Ali the Helering
    and each honouring a different Arkat...
  8. Ali the Helering
    Ahh, but the genius of the Arkati is that they meet in the unwindowed house directly across the street!
  9. Ali the Helering
    There was a cult write-up in Troll Gods.
  10. Ali the Helering
    Every year Don would lead a group of philosophy and theology students to his graveside. He said that it was very interesting that every year there were votive offerings placed there!
  11. Ali the Helering
    Don Cupitt, the non-Realist theologian (and my ethics tutor) demanded of religion that there be "No more pixie dust". I think he and Greg would have got on well.
  12. Ali the Helering
    While no longer of the pantheon, Heler would seem likely given his repeated fights with Ui and his Ereltharol aspect.
  13. Ali the Helering
    I have toyed with the idea of character creation along the lines of Nephilim, so that elves gain specific skills at different points within the ages, dependent on the culture and society predominating at the time, and any changes in focus for the character.
  14. Ali the Helering
    My consultant leaned forward very urgently, and with great intensity assured me "You can never have too much caffeine!" I know some doctors survive on it, and I always try to follow medical advice😊
  15. Ali the Helering
    Yet, as players, haven't we all felt "Oh, not another f***ing quest against an f***ing Dark Lord"?
  16. Ali the Helering
    Of course, part of the issue with respect to Family Histories is that they record events that have a significant impact upon the PC. It all depends on what you class as such a significant event. The Clan Questionnaire made do with 32(?) questions to cover the entirety of Glorantha's myth and history impact on a clan. If you produce a Noldor Family History then you simply have to record the major events that would have impact on someone from their specific realm. Remembering that for very long periods of time nothing happens that needs recording. Which may be why so many elves look truly bored in the movies.😜
  17. Ali the Helering
    Sorry to be a pedant, but while the singular of "serpents of the deep" is tannin the plural is tanninim. Tannim has been translated a number of ways, including 'monster', 'dragon' and 'jackal'. Such precision is what makes the Bible such a simple book to understand....
  18. Ali the Helering
    Since the excavation and translation of the Ugarit/Ras Shamra material the Bible has to be seen as part of a continuum of Mesopotamian-Levantine religious material. Biblical literalists fail to take the Bible seriously.🤣🤪
  19. Ali the Helering
    It is also worth noting that tehom is cognate with Tiamet, and the portion of the Genesis 1 Creation narrative where 6 And God said, ‘Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.’ 7 So God made the dome and separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above the dome. And it was so. can easily be understood as the splitting of the Chaos goddess in two, and the RW being created between those parts. This is directly referenced in the Enuma Elish Tablet IV verses 101 - 140.
  20. Ali the Helering
    I have always considered it to be an unintentional backfire of the ritual causing a sleeping dragon to awaken, indicating the Gloranthan Uncertainty Principle. Is it a sleeping dragon; is it a range of hills; is it really, really angry at having its snooze interrupted?
  21. Ali the Helering
    Any being who serves as a substitute for life is a parasite, not a divinity.
  22. Ali the Helering
    Except that it frequently does, to the detriment of all concerned.
  23. Ali the Helering
    You might trace religion to the 'Idea of the Holy' (Otto) or the Varieties of Religious Experience (James) or the Elementary forms of Religious Life (Durkheim) or whatever you like, but when all is said and done, all you have is a liberal European understanding of a worldwide phenomenon. Faith is the thought that there is something bigger than ourselves that is worthy of trust, and has an absolute value - whether it is the Boy Scouts of America, Manchester United, the Large Hadron Collider or Brahma. Greg was a shamanist, and encountered the other in quite different ways to Dara Happans or (most) Sartarites. His Jrusteli Monomyth was the Campbellian Monomyth transported into Glorantha. He came to realise that it failed as much in Glorantha as it did in California, which is why I greatly regret the over-simplification of the recent return to the Monomyth. It isn't the commonality of religion which is important - that is a simple function of humanity - it is the variation from it, just as in the RW. All faith is a function of irrationality, or as Sam Clemens (Mark Twain) put it "Faith is believing what you know ai'tent so". Trying to pin religious faith down to a structuralist pattern is like trying to paint a cloud green. It really doesn't - and can't - work that way.
  24. Ali the Helering
    IMG they have been played as Borg. Which is fine. Until you get to 7 of 9......
  25. Ali the Helering
    Hard to see how a storm god would operate otherwise.
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