From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Tue 08 Aug 1995 - 21:43:59 EEST
David Cake enthuses:
> I would like to mention a particularly fabulous theory at this point
> (probably due to Nick Brooke). Are people familiar with the theory that the
> awakening of the goddess was a form of Lightbringers Quest?
Nick's certainly a notorious advocate of this view -- to the point of
being heckled by Greg for espousing it. ;-) It's clear to me that it's
_partly_ true, but the LBQ isn't necessarily the biggest influence on
the recreation. Firstly, there are all these Naverian Women's
Mythology type things, which in the pre-Lunar Dara Happan Empire took
the form of very bleak, depressing and seemingly pointless mystery
cults. "Oh my god, everyone dies horribly again..." I think that the
Lunars have cannibalized other mythologies, LBQ and others, in order to
"fix" these myths so that they have a Happy Ending, or at the least an
Apparent Point. (This is, I think, where the Lunar obsession with
"healing" things comes from.) Then there's the adoption cum subversion
of Dara Happan practice. And also seemingly extraneous influences,
like Uz ones: in order to rebuild Nysalor (faster... stronger...
better...) enough trollish rituals had to be known of to work out what
had been done with his Bits.
I don't myself think the correspondence between the Mothers and the
LBers on a one-for-one basis is at all strong. I think the
similarities are much more "patchy" than that: they've abstracted out
"useful" elements from the LBQ, which can be made to serve a purpose
for whatever the task at hand is, rather than trying to fulfill a
consistent "role" for the whole quest.
Alex.
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