From: James Turner (lib155@abdn.ac.uk)
Date: Tue 01 Jul 1997 - 12:03:00 EEST
I find myself confused over the origin of the Yelmalio cult.
The origin of the cult seems to start when Elmali change their
In an effort to find out how cults/religion start on Glorantha I found
this excellent piece in KoS, but it creates more questions than answers.
pratices after recognising Yelm. Most noteably the Eyetooth clan who
brought in the antesmia statue (whatever that is!) so that they could
cast sun spear. Presumably the rest of their magic still came from
Elmal who didn't mind them worshipping a foreign God.
Tarkalor then brought in the disgruntled Elmali to fight the
Kitori. Why are they disgruntled? After he won they founded The Sun
Dome Temple, to worship who? They have deviated from Elmal at this
point but Yelmalio doesn't fully exist as a cult and his name isn't
known yet.
Monrogh has this vision at his initiation(which cult is he
being initiated into?), and travels to the sun god to find the truth
which was needed. He didn't know the name of the god he searched for
but brought back Yelmalio.
This last bit stumps me! I'm guessing that at this point that
they are confused about having contradicting Elamli bits and Yelmie
bits in their religion. Monrogh goes off to find the truth, I don't
know what truth he was looking for but it sounds like an "Orlanth are
you known as God X" type of quest which the digest agreed was
impossible to answer.
Lo and behold all their questions are answered when he comes
back with the cult of Yelmalio, which they had accidently discovered by
wanting to cast sun spear! Since the elves have known about him for
ages it wasn't a sneaky trick by Monrogh either.
Also what's the current stand on the Sun Dome in DP? Is it now
officially an Elmali temple or is it still Yelmalio?
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James Turner
lib155@abdn.ac.uk
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