I know I tend to come to the forums once in a while to drop another nitpicky question and disappear, and I hope you will forgive me, but I wanted to clearly state a question that seems to have come up in some discussions I've read.
What - in Greg's vision and in the current official canon of Glorantha [and perhaps in the older versions/visions of it] - is the "truth status" of God Time entities and events?
Is it that there is a "correct" list of beings, names, properties and events (even if non-linear) that got distorted and changed in the mythologies of various peoples? That is, for example, there is a specific being that was the Sun and the Emperor in the Golden Age and a specific thing happened to it, and the differences between Dara Happan, Pentan, Orlanthi, Six Ages Riders etc. versions of the events are just due to (mis)interpretation, propaganda and loyalties?
Is it that multiple versions of events are true at the same time, because Gods (and their stories) are the kind of beings who don't have to have one linear history but are composites of many different versions? That is, Yelm could both die and go to Hell, and never really die; both Pamalt, Arachne Solara, Yelm and Orlanth/Ernalda could have coordinated the work on the net that caught the Devil; the answer to the paradox of Many Suns is that the Sun can be many things at once, and a being can both be a Sun and not be a Sun?
Is it that the basic runic interactions are true, but how they are interpreted into specific beings and stories depends on who watches them? So the same conflict can involve the Genertelan or Pamaltean pantheon depending on who the heroquester witnessing it is? And the Little Sun can be Yelmalio or Elmal or something else depending on who seeks for it? Perhaps this even changes the very events that exist in the God Time?
Is it based on synchronicity, in that there are numerous independent versions of the gods world and the God Time that occured simultaneously and together changed the universe? As in, Pamalt and Arache Solara did their bindings independently at the same time, both Yelmalio and Elmal did similar things and their actions helped achieve the result they achieved etc.? I remember that the defeat of Chaos and the Sunstop were examples of effects brought forward by separate actions in different contexts and parts of the world
Or is it just a mystery that a mortal mind cannot comprehend so I should stop trying?