From: Frederic Ferro (ferro@clipper.ens.fr)
Date: Fri 14 Nov 1997 - 14:42:49 EET
Stephen Martin wrote about a gloranthan Amateratsu-No-Kami:
(a female Yelm-Yukargzant who founds a dynasty of Tenno in Vormain) :=20
> Nothing in there [hidden arcana about Vormain] mentions a Sun deity at =
all.
But there is Nick Brooke's famous theory of the Rising Sun : the Sun is m=
ore=20
powerful in the East (RQCon 1). Theya is a feminine Solar goddess who=20
could play a role (with another name) in Vormain.=20
<RW-bad-analogy mode>
In RW Nihon, Susanno-wo(sp?) is a Storm God who caused a Great Darkness w=
hen=20
he irritated the Empress Amateratsu. Later, a Eurmal figure had to convin=
ce=20
Amateratsu to come back by devising a new rival, a kind of Light-Tree=20
(Fire Elves? Tolkienian First Tree?).=20
I suppose a Son of Umath could be a powerful god in Vormain=20
(the Seven-Branched Sword of Susannoo was one of the relics of the Tenno=20
in Ise). The Nysaloran Nichiren Zen School must be a major sect too, mayb=
e=20
founded by some exiled survivors of the Bright Empire and Kralorelan=20
heretic mystics.=20
Frederic
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"Serendipite : dans une bonne bibliotheque, le livre dont vous=20
avez vraiment besoin se trouve toujours =E0 c=F4t=E9 de celui que vous
etiez venu chercher." (Principe de Warburg)
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