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How do you feel day-to-day praying looks/feels like in Glorantha? I've been reading Songs of Ice and Fire and in that world there is the (pretty familiar) idea that humans ask/hope/pray gods do some good deeds for them. They assume gods play tricks on them or cause certain things to happen etc. Of course I mirror this to Glorantha and I feel the premise is a little different in Glorantha.

In Glorantha the world keeps on going forward (or doing it's cycle) because the Middle World folk (humans, trolls, everyone) do their deeds and strengthen the gods. So, in a prayer, they wouldn't be asking stuff from the gods but sending some divine power to the gods to strengthen them. If they want something from a god they don't really ask the god to do something but they emulate the things the god did during God Time to achieve that. That is because the gods don't really have power to change things anymore (Cosmic Compromise). So, the mother of a family is not praying "Ernalda, protect our family" but "Ernalda, I will hit our door hinges with a broom thrice this evening as you did so that you have strength to protect your house from terrors." If something bad happens do they curse a god for causing it? Or do they feel that their god is losing their strength and succumbing to bad gods?

On the other hand ancestors and spirits can be petitioned to do something for the family. "Oh grandfather, protect our family from terror. We will leave this porridge for you to eat during the night."

Does this sound like Glorantha to you?


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