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NewMars posted:Note: This is just a page over from a depiction of them as ordinary looking short guys in renaissance-era clothing. Isn't that just the modern dwarves where the metals are just castes rather than utterly different peoples who just work together though?
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Haystack posted:In real life, it's pretty obvious that Zeus and Jupiter are more or less the same god, and it's interesting studying that overlap. It's also fairly obvious that those gods are fictional, and that any academic attempts to declare them exactly the same paves over the lived reality of religion by taking a fictional premise too seriously. In Glorantha, by contrast, the gods are very real, with very direct, easy to observe effects on the world. You'd expect them, to be discreet entities, but, no, you can still do religious syncretism on them! That's a fascinating phenomenon, and the God Learners are very relatable for wanting to explore that and figure out the underlying principles. But God Learners are a parody of colonial anthropology, so it's poetic that they overreach, get too wrapped up in their theorycrafting, and get smacked down by both the people they exploited and very literal manifestations of the principles that they've misunderstood. Well in large part that's because the Romans syncretised the Greek panetheon over their own for their own reasons of being massive weeaboos about Greece. The equivalent attempts to syncretise them over the Egyptian pantheon(s) was shakier, and the Roman attempts to to do the same with their new composites over further conquered peoples is probably what the God Learners are riffing on, beyond poo poo Anglo Victorian era anthropology.
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