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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

See also: 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…

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….

Catalogue of the Gods

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…

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…

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…

Core mythological secrets

Posted on July 27, 2020

One might view the entire Hero Wars as an extremely costly way of the Orlanthi and the Lunars teaching each other their core mythological secrets.

A Sketch Map Centred on Genert’s Garden

Posted on April 1, 2019

And here is what I was working on during the week. Note that the month and year of this post are correct, just not the date.

A few notes on the God Time history of mortals

Posted on March 7, 2015

Glorantha in the God Time progressed from a Green Age to a Golden Age to a Storm Age and then to its near destruction in the Great Darkness. Mortals experienced this as…

Excerpt – Cosmology (1981)

Originally published in Cults of Terror Before Creation In analyzing the mythos of Glorantha, four streams of belief prevail. They sometimes mingle and sometimes flow in separate channels, but they all flow…

Mythical Age Maps

The maps of the mythical ages look different depending on which perspective you are looking from. The Malkioni sorcerers of the west, the theists of Genertela, the mystics of Vithela in the…

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