From: Sérgio Mascarenhas (sermasalmeida@mail.telepac.pt)
Date: Mon 18 Aug 1997 - 13:07:59 EEST
> Well, IMO they'd (1) have their own Hunter god, like *every other hunting
> If anything they'd have some weird remnant bird-hunter, a relic of the
> culture in Glorantha*. Why would they borrow a troll god?
(1) "They" means ducks.
Good point. Now tell me, why did they borrow human gods - Orrlanthi
pantheon, why not a full duck pantheon? IMO your point of view is strongly
biased towards humans: You can accept that
they have human gods but not troll's.
> Godtime.
Speaking about birds hunters in the god time: before the darkness they
would be hunters BUT when the darkness came the hunters became the hunt.
IMO bird hunters suffered severelly with the darkness. A bird hunter relies
almost exclusively on sight to hunt; sight relies on light; take out the
light, bye-bye bird hunter.
Some birds - those that hunt at night - prospered of course. Which is BTW a
very good question: did such birds turn to darkness or are they sun
worshipers, a sort of sentinels of the sun at night?
What about ducks ? After the curse the hunting skills of hunting birds
became unuseful to them since they can no longer fly. Which means IMO that
I don't see what kind of 'weird remnant bird-hunter' they would worship.
Best,
Sergio Mascarenhas
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