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Jungian Archetypes and Their Gloranthan Deities

Posted on April 7, 2025

I did a little list with the Jungian archetypes from his writings and lectures, and then assigned the Gloranthan deity I thought best applies. It is a fun little exercise, and one…

Myth in Glorantha

Posted on October 6, 2024

Let’s talk a moment about myth in Glorantha. Now we have an entire book on it, but let’s start with Greg’s own words: “Myths are sacred tales that directly address our contact…

Good Gods and Bad

Posted on June 25, 2024

When I was writing the RQ cults book, I kept going back to Jung. Here’s a nice little quote from “Modern Man in search of a soul” that is worth pondering: “Every…

Same God – Different Name, Different Stories

Posted on June 15, 2023

Something people often get tripped up on – many gods have different names and some different stories known to different cultures. Orlanth is called Rebellus Terminus among other names in old Dara…

The Cosmic Buildup to the Hero Wars

Posted on June 7, 2023

Let’s talk a little about this: It really all starts with the Seven Mothers, a desperate conspiracy that gathered to perform the most incredible ritual ever attempted by mortals. They searched the…

Some thoughts on Gloranthan religion:

Posted on April 30, 2023

The Gloranthan deities fulfill psychological or cosmic needs, if they are to be worshiped. Even Zorak Zoran and Storm Bull has their place in the cosmos and in the needs of their…

Gods are Contradictory Archetypes

Posted on March 22, 2023

After having written some million words covering more than one hundred RQ cults, I can confidently say that I find all of them fascinating in their own way. Each represents an archetype…

Mythology is Not Set in Stone

Posted on February 8, 2023

It must be emphasized that mythology is not set in stone. Each myth, endlessly retold and re-experienced, has countless variations. The name of a god will change from one story to the…

Cosmos & Chaos

Posted on February 5, 2023

As I have been exploring and detailing Gloranthan mythology for the last several years, I’ve been struck by how the cults of Chaos represent those evils that are simply contrary to the…

Into the 4th Dimension – Magic

Posted on January 9, 2023

I’ve been thinking of Glorantha as a four-dimensional setting. So three dimensions is pretty easy to get – we have geography, culture, and time, right? I’ve done a lot of posts about…

The Monomyth

Posted on December 8, 2022

Glorantha is a unified setting – by that I mean that all of its pieces fit together to form a whole. The cosmology of Glorantha can be fit together to tell an…

Four Ways to Experience these Stories (re-post)

Posted on November 17, 2022

As Cults gets closer and closer to some big and exciting announcements, here’s a little passage that I think is particularly important for this forum: Four Ways to Experience these Stories Myths…

Deep Lunar Synthesis

Posted on October 27, 2022

One of Greg’s deep background notes that I refer to an awful lot when I think about Glorantha is this chart that he put together to try to think about the basic…

Pamaltelan Mythical Age Maps (2003)

The Pamaltelan mythology divides history in Periods: the Creation Period, the Artmali Period, the Demon Period etc. You can read more about the Pamaltelan mythic ages in the pre-finished work Revealed Mythologies.

Western Mythical Age Maps (2003)

The western mythology divides history in Actions, after the Actions of Malkion. You can read more about the western mythic ages in the pre-finished work Revealed Mythologies.

Vithelan Mythical Age Maps (2003)

The Vithelan mythology divides history in Cycles, named mainly after who ruled the world: the Creation Cycle, the High Gods Cycle, the Gods Cycle, the Demigods Cycle and now the Human Cycle….

World-Wide Deities

Posted on August 20, 2022

Most Gloranthan religions list hundreds, even thousands of gods. Some of these gods are clearly localized phenomena, deified rulers, or tribal ancestors. Others are alternative titles for gods already worshiped under a…

Read these to improve your RuneQuest Games

Posted on April 12, 2022

Jeff Richard walks though some of the best fictional, factual, and historical inspirations you may want to look at to improve your RuneQuest games. This is probably the single most useful snippet…

The Mythology panel at ChaosiumCon 2022

Posted on April 11, 2022

Jeff Richard, Jason Durall, & David Larkins

Understanding Mythology

Posted on March 13, 2022

Here’s a snippet from what I consider to be one of the most important essays in the Cults Book. Readers will see that many of these stories in these volumes seem to…

How mythology underpins Glorantha

Posted on December 31, 2021

Manifestations of Gods

Posted on July 13, 2021

The Loki television series has me thinking about the Gods of Glorantha. One way of looking at the cults is they are groups of people who gather around to worship the named…

Gloranthan gods are not moral exemplars

Posted on March 27, 2021

As an aside, most Gloranthan gods are not viewed as moral exemplars by their worshipers. Orlanthi readily acknowledge that when Orlanth used Death on Yelm that was a Bad Thing (although we…

The Esrolian Monomyth

Posted on March 9, 2021

Some of you might find this interesting – it is a common version of the myth cycle told in the Holy Country. You might consider this the Esrolian version of the monomyth….

Play around with Gloranthan myths

Posted on January 14, 2021

Dan Zappone asked a very good question about how to get your players to play around with Gloranthan myths, especially in hero quests. Here are some thoughts of mine that I thought…

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