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<blockquote data-quote="The Fighter-Cricket" data-source="post: 7757350" data-attributes="member: 32852"><p>Sorry to be so pedantic, but Shiva is to this day worshipped by many as a supreme (good) god. Yeah, he has this thing with destruction, but that's more in a metaphysical way of destroying and rebuilding creation after a specific cycle of aeons. See it as a "circle of life" philosophy, if you will. He has a lot of temples in Southeast Asia and very many devotees which go there regularly on pilgrimages. Worshipping Shiva is not so popular as worshipping the other big god Vishnu, but still he is considered one of the good and benevolent supreme beings. So, just to put this into context. </p><p></p><p>Back to the discussion about frontiers:</p><p></p><p>You are right, that we in our world never had any "real" evil beings that lurked on humanities frontiers, like orcs or armies of hobgoblins. </p><p></p><p>But, you know, there were other things threatening human communities: Nature itself was a threat. The forrest was terrifying. Bad weather could kill you when you were on the road. Sickness could strike you. Everything unknown was bad. In rural societies, everything that wasn't tamed by humans meant possible death. If the river flowed where it wanted and wasn't tamed, then it could swallow your houses. When you didn't look out, the wolves ate your cattle. And don't you go into the woods and stray away from the (often lousy) road. </p><p>People did what they could to hack away the woods, tame the beasts, make the rivers flow straight, and so on. That was the frontier. Up until the end of the 19th Century in parts of central Europe even. Have you maybe been to the Alps? Even 150 years ago, when snow did fall and closed the mountain passes, you wouldn't be going anywhere for at least 4 months, if not longer.</p><p></p><p>Tl;dr: Nature was a frontier for humans and was often regarded as (at least possibly containing) evil.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Fighter-Cricket, post: 7757350, member: 32852"] Sorry to be so pedantic, but Shiva is to this day worshipped by many as a supreme (good) god. Yeah, he has this thing with destruction, but that's more in a metaphysical way of destroying and rebuilding creation after a specific cycle of aeons. See it as a "circle of life" philosophy, if you will. He has a lot of temples in Southeast Asia and very many devotees which go there regularly on pilgrimages. Worshipping Shiva is not so popular as worshipping the other big god Vishnu, but still he is considered one of the good and benevolent supreme beings. So, just to put this into context. Back to the discussion about frontiers: You are right, that we in our world never had any "real" evil beings that lurked on humanities frontiers, like orcs or armies of hobgoblins. But, you know, there were other things threatening human communities: Nature itself was a threat. The forrest was terrifying. Bad weather could kill you when you were on the road. Sickness could strike you. Everything unknown was bad. In rural societies, everything that wasn't tamed by humans meant possible death. If the river flowed where it wanted and wasn't tamed, then it could swallow your houses. When you didn't look out, the wolves ate your cattle. And don't you go into the woods and stray away from the (often lousy) road. People did what they could to hack away the woods, tame the beasts, make the rivers flow straight, and so on. That was the frontier. Up until the end of the 19th Century in parts of central Europe even. Have you maybe been to the Alps? Even 150 years ago, when snow did fall and closed the mountain passes, you wouldn't be going anywhere for at least 4 months, if not longer. Tl;dr: Nature was a frontier for humans and was often regarded as (at least possibly containing) evil. [/QUOTE]
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