This month in Trinity Universe history
May. 1st, 2004 04:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aberrantangelsThis craptop's hard drive doesn't have room for AIM or SimpleMU*, so please don't expect any real time chats with me until and unless we get the other computers talking to the net again.
Of course, as we've seen, the tendency to view novas as gods is not unique to the undeveloped world. The Aberrant Players Guide includes campaign suggestions based on the reverse of this equation — what if the ancient gods were early novas who got euhemerized?
2002
[Aberrant] The Economist coins the term "India Syndrome" for the tendency in third-world and other pre-industrial cultures to view novas as gods, and particularly to those novas who encourage this attitude.
Of course, as we've seen, the tendency to view novas as gods is not unique to the undeveloped world. The Aberrant Players Guide includes campaign suggestions based on the reverse of this equation — what if the ancient gods were early novas who got euhemerized?
