[Rq-rules] spirit cults etc

[Lev Lafayette]

--- Clive Wickens <clive.wickens at btopenworld.com>
wrote:

> Well, when I posed the questions I was using the
> term spirit cult in the Gloranthan sense of the word
> ie: a small localised religion and/or shamanic based
> form of worship as opposed to a more formalised
> hierarchial religion......maybe I've just answered
> my own question there, but I was curious asto how
> one might transform into the other ( assuming they
> do of course ) and that gotr me thinking about the
> various other questions I went on to pose.  > 

Shamatic traditions transform into religious
traditions through the same means as other social
institutions; the generation of agricultural
surpluses, and the establishment of landed property
and the class system.

HTH,


Lev


       
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