[Glorantha] Sea Gods and Gorgers

[Peter Metcalfe]

Nils:

>Me> In Eastern mythology, the Sea always seems to be working
> > hand in hand with the antigods - I think there's some dark
> > source in their mythology which the antigods find easy to
> > attune to.

>I think most of the sea gods are actually considered to be
>antigods. E.g. Venperesha is the antigoddess of sea animals.

That's a subjective and polemical classification (one readily
made by the Vithelans) but it doesn't address Joerg's
problem.

The sea gods are not part of the Vithelan pantheon
but have their own mythology and connection with
the Transcendent.   As a result, they are no more
antigods than the Orlanthi are.  Yet despite this, in the
conflicts that the Sea Gods have with the Vithelans, they
end up taking the side of the Antigods.  The question
was then why?

>Me> Perhaps [the Gorgers] have resolved the agony of their
> > existence by inflicting it as an aura.

>If the gorgers are descended from or related to vithelan
>monsters or demons the aura may be the effect of an antigod
>(false) mystic practice.

Describing it as a practice doesn't sound right.  The Gorgers
are monsters, not humans, and their aura of pain is
innate, not learned.

--Peter Metcalfe