From: D. Pearton (pearton@u.washington.edu)
Date: Mon 09 Jun 1997 - 21:25:41 EEST
Hi all,
Hasni had some problems with Pam's assertions that all pantheons are
I also want to echo the fact that there are genuine Orlanthi who do not
That's all for now,
complete and says that frex the "earth pantheon" in never complete on its
own. Where I think that the confusion comes in is that things like the
"elemental" pantheons per se _are_ by their very nature incomplete, but
the pantheon of any given _culture_, be it the Pelorians, Sartarites,
Kraloreli, trolls or Doraddi, are complete. Thus the Pelorian pantheon is
complete in and of itself contaning darkness (Gorgoma, Bijjif, etc), earth
(Lodril, etc), aether (Yelm, etc), storm (entekos, etc), water (Oslira,
etc). Of course they do concentrate more on certain aspects than the
Sartarites or Trolls would, but they do not need to go to other cultures
to round out their pantheon. Thus Rebellous Terminus is a known pelorian
god, and it is not Orlanth in the minds of most Pelorians.
look at their God in life and death struggle with the Red Goddess. The
Syllians (god I always spell that wrong), Tarshites, Aggari are all
happily ;) part of the empire and see no problem with accepting the Red
Goddess. The Ralians have no clue that their god is supposed to be
diametrically opposed to the Red Moon, they have their own problems with
the Western type cultures and the elves, for example. Our Ralians were
most welcoming of Lunar traders - they provided wine. One of our number
persuaded my sceptical Bemurok worshipper that they couldn't be much of a
threat because they worshipped a wine-besotted emporer.
Yak
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Dave Pearton
pearton@u.washington.edu
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