From: Stephen P Martin (ilium@juno.com)
Date: Wed 16 Apr 1997 - 08:31:56 EEST
Alex Ferguson
Grey Age is a term sometimes used to refer to the time _after_ the Great
My beliefs about the merged nature of the Orlanth cult stem from a number
Darkness, but before the Dawn. Orlanthi sometimes call it the Silver Age;
thus, Heort is said in RuneQuest Companion to be a Silver Age Hero. Star
Age, Weeping Time are also cognate terms.
of discussions on the subject, mainly with Jeff Richardson and Dave
Dunham (and others) a couple of years ago. IMO, the two Orlanth cults (as
they were originally separate cults, in RQ2) have too many differences,
in magic, outlook, and nature, to have originated as a single cult. But I
don't want to go into great detail of this discussion, whcih involved the
entire Orlanth Pantheon, beliefs about First Age nature of these dieties,
geographical separations, etc. I'll accept your agreeing to disagree.
>The presence of such cults where either the presented
>structure, or the mythic history of the cult would have to be "fixed" to
>fit the theory (7M, Yelm and Yelmalio, conspicuously, leaving aside the
>fuzzy "ruling shamanic" question) seems to me rather stronger.
I can't see how Yelmalio or 7M would have to be "fixed" to account for my
Finally, having different ranks of a Carmanian mystery cult is
Cult of Ernalda was in RQ3 Glorantha Book. Pretty bare bones, and the
theory. Yelmalio is a god constructed from 1 1/2, 2, or 3 other deities,
thus seeming to fit my theory quite nicely. Though I will remove 7M from
my argument mostly because I don't think even what we have in GoG can be
said to be accurate about it anymore, with all the changes the Lunars
have undergone in the last year.
completelyy irrelevant to a discussion of "rune levels", which in itself
is a bad term -- these are not terms of cult rank in a RQ3 cult sense;
that format would not be one I would suggest to use when writing up such
a society.
Dendara stuff was very contradicted by GoG, for the better (though still
not enough).
Ever the Reconstructionist and Rewriter,
Stephen Martin
ilium@juno.com
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