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<blockquote data-quote="Blue Orange" data-source="post: 8571916" data-attributes="member: 7025997">FWIW I always took the Gloranthan view that it's the Bronze Age, most people don't travel much, and every group's myths make them look good, so Conan's Cimmerians are convinced the Stygians are evil snake-worshippers, while the Stygians are convinced that the Cimmerians are a bunch of barbarians who don't understand their religious ceremonies. We're reading Conan's account--we don't get to read Thoth-Amon the Second's chronicles about how his dad, a brilliant and learned priest of Set who was loved very much by all three of his wives, was assaulted by a hairy barbarian...And if you read history, everyone hates the neighbors, because there's always some plot of land that's belonged to the other group lots of times and you think you own and have fought lots of wars over, not to mention that three generations ago they came over and killed your great-granddad (of course, four generations ago, your great-great-granddad came over and killed a bunch of them, but he's a great war hero, that was a defensive war, and we'll brook no dirtying of his good name...)Was that Howard's view? Of course not, dude was writing for a European-American audience in the 1930s.What would Howard think, if resurrected from essential salts? We can't know, but my money is on... &quot;Y'all are still making stories about that guy I made up to pay the bills? Awesome! Hey, can I get royalties?&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue Orange, post: 8571916, member: 7025997"] FWIW I always took the Gloranthan view that it's the Bronze Age, most people don't travel much, and every group's myths make them look good, so Conan's Cimmerians are convinced the Stygians are evil snake-worshippers, while the Stygians are convinced that the Cimmerians are a bunch of barbarians who don't understand their religious ceremonies. We're reading Conan's account--we don't get to read Thoth-Amon the Second's chronicles about how his dad, a brilliant and learned priest of Set who was loved very much by all three of his wives, was assaulted by a hairy barbarian... And if you read history, everyone hates the neighbors, because there's always some plot of land that's belonged to the other group lots of times and you think you own and have fought lots of wars over, not to mention that three generations ago they came over and killed your great-granddad (of course, four generations ago, your great-great-granddad came over and killed a bunch of them, but he's a great war hero, that was a [I]defensive[/I] war, and we'll brook no dirtying of his good name...) Was that [I]Howard's[/I] view? Of course not, dude was writing for a European-American audience in the 1930s. What would Howard think, if resurrected from essential salts? We can't know, but my money is on... "Y'all are still making stories about that guy I made up to pay the bills? [I]Awesome[/I]! Hey, can I get royalties?" [/QUOTE]

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