From: Stephen Martin (ilium@juno.com)
Date: Sun 14 Sep 1997 - 21:10:47 EEST
Andrew Barton <AndrewBarton@compuserve.com>
>My wife and I have been doing some thinking on the structure of centaur
Centaur culture
>herds in their homelands - the only Glrantha references I've seen are to
>bachelor groups found in other areas.
>
>Has anything been published or posted on the subject?
I believe Dave Dunham or Mike Dawson has something on them, I can't
recall which.
Andrew Behan
>Is the Bear Goddess pictured in Entek. Ertelenari (from the Gods Wall)
or
>at least a cognate entity? In any case AFAIK she is a hunter goddess a
la
>Artemis is her story told in Entek? Can any of you Pelorria gurus
>enlighten me?
In actual fact, the Bear Goddess on the Gods Wall is NOT Ertelenari,
though that is what Plentonius calls her. It is in fact probably Arakang,
King Bear, per GRoY (Ivory Edition) page 58. Ertelenari is one of the
so-called Finger Goddesses. The bear pictured in Entekosiad (Green) on
page 71 is in fact Arakang, King Bear, who is a separate cultural deity
from Ertelenari -- they are from different lands.
Patrik Sandberg
Cold Cliff is interesting. I would certainly want to tone it down,
myself, but it seems to resonate well with my ideas about the "Colorless"
tribe which is rumored to inhabit the central mountains of Teleos.
Basically, it is formed of those Teleons who dislike the racial
color-hating. People of all colors mix and live together, finding joy in
their spouses and children, regardless of their color.
For mythic reasons, the place where they are said to live is called White
Woman's Mountain. I could see a link between this and the Cold Cliff.
Note that the Child Trade Meeting Ground is said by the Teleons to the
exact center of the world.
Stephen Martin
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